Art & Ecology
Selected Readings for Teachers
Additional Resources
by Steve Darnell
Science And Environment
Berman, Morris. (1981) The Reenchantment of the World. New York,Cornell University Press.
Aesthetics And Environment
Berleant, Arnold. (1992) The Aesthetics of Environment, Philadelphia:Temple University Press.
Chapple, Christopher Key. (ed.) (1994). Ecological Perspectives: Scientific,Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives. Albany: State University of NewYork Press.
Copley, Stephen and Garside, Peter. (1994) The Politics of the Picturesque:Literature, Landscape and Aesthetics since 1770, Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Kemal, Salim and Gaskell, Ivan. (1993) Landscape, natural beauty andthe arts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Art And Environment
Blackburn, Sara. (ed.) (1983) The Book of Nature. The Hudson RiverMuseum at Yonkers.
Boime, Albert. (1991) The Magisterial Gaze: Manifest Destiny and AmericanLandscape Painting c. 1830-1865. Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press.
Burns, Sara. (1989) Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerican Art and Culture. Philadelphia; Temple University Press.
Crandell, Gina. (1993) Nature Pictorialized. Baltimore: John HopkinsUniversity Press.
Flexner, James Thomas. (1970) That Wilder Image: The Native School FromThomas Cole to Winslow Homer. New York: Dover Publications.
Gidley, Mick and Lawson-Peebles, Robert. (eds.) (1989) Views of AmericanLandscapes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Goetzmann, William H. and Goetzmann, William N. (1986) The West of theImagination. New York: W. W. Norton.
Grande, John K. (1994) Balance: Art and Nature. New York: BlackRose Books.
Lubin, David M. (1994). Picturing a Nation: Social Change in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Miller, Angela. (1993) The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representationand American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UniversityPress.
Trenton, Patricia and Hassick, Peter H. (1983) The Rocky Mountains; AVision for Artists of the Nineteenth Century. Norman: University ofOklahoma Press.
Tuettner, William H. and Wallach, Alan. (eds.) (1994) Thomas Cole: Landscapeinto History. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Wrede, Stuart and Adams, William Howard. (eds.) (1991) Denatured Visions,New York: Museum of Modern Art.
Environmental History
Conzen, Michael P. (ed.) (1990) The Making of the American Landscape.Winchester, MA: Unwin and Hyman.
_________. (1984) Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. Totowa,NJ: Barnes and Noble Books.
Cosgrove, Denis E. and Daniels, Stephen. (1988) The Iconography of Landscape.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cronon, William, Miles, George, Miles and Gitlin, Jay. (eds.) (1994). Underan Open Sky: Rethinking American's Western Past. New York W.W. Norton.
Cronon, William. (1983) Changes in the Landscape: Indians, Colonists,and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang.
Duerr, Hans Peter (1985). Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary betweenWilderness and Civilization. (Felicitas Goodman, Trans.). Oxford: BasilBlackwell.
Ferkiss, Victor (1993). Nature, Technology, and Society: Cultural Rootsof the Current Environmental Crisis. New York: New York University Press.
Gidley, Mick and Lawson-Peebles, Robert. (eds.) (1990) Views of AmericanLandscapes. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Jackson, J. B. (1984) Discovering the Vernacular Landscape. New Haven:Yale University Press.
_______ (1970) Landscapes: Selected Writings of J. B. Jackson. Universityof Massachusetts Press.
Meinig, D.W. (1993) The Shaping of America: Continental America 1800-1867.New Haven, CN: Yale Press.
Nash, Roderick. (1982) Wilderness and the American Mind. Yale University.
Sears, John F. (1989) Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions inthe Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press.
Shepard, Paul (1991) Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Estheticsof Nature. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
_____________(1982) Nature and Madness. San Francisco; Sierra ClubBooks.
Short, John Rennie. (1991) Imagined Country: Environment, Culture andSociety. New York: Routledge.
Thomas, Keith. (1983) Man and the Natural World. New York: PenguinBooks.
Worster, Donald. (1985) Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas.New York: Cambridge University Press.
Literature And Environment
Glotfelty, Cheryll and Fromm, Harold. (eds) (1996) The Ecocritcism Reader:Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Athens:The University of Georgia Press.
Kolodny, Annette. (1975) The Lay of the Land. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press
________(1986) The Land Before Her. Chapel Hill: University of NorthCarolina Press.
Marx, Leo. (1964) The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoralin America. New York: Oxford University Press.
Mason, Jim. (1993) An Unnatural Order: Uncovering the Roots of Our Dominationof Nature and Each Other. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Merchant, Carolyn. (1989) Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, andScience in New England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
________(1986) The Death of Nature. San Francisco: Harpers Press.
Norwood, Vera. (1993) Made From This Earth: American Women and Nature.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Slotkin, Richard (1985). The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontierin The Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890. New York: HarperPerrennial.
Westling, Louise H. (1996) The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape,Gender, and American Fiction. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Curriculum And Environment
Bowers, C.A. (1995) Educating for an Ecologically SustainableCulture. Albany: State University of New York Press.
_________. (1993) Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis.Albany: State University of New York Press.Curriculum
Collett, Jonathan and Karakashian, Stephen. (eds) (1996) Greening theCollege. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Harris, Gill and Blackwell, Cynthia (eds.). (1996) Environmental Issuesin Education.Brookfield. Vermont; Ashgate Publishing.
Oliver, Donald W. (1989) Education, Modernity, and Fractured Meaning.Albany: State University of New York Press.
Orr, David W. (1994) Earth in Mind. Washington: Island Press.
__________. (1992) Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition toa Postmodern World. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Prakash, Madru Suri. (1995) Whose Ecological Perspective? Bringing EcologyDown to Earth, ch. 24 in Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education.Wendy Kohli (ed.), New York: Routledge.
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