Modern Humanities Week 11:

Constructing the Modern: Art, landscape, space, and cartography

Landscape and Place

• The Most Desirable Painting: http://www.diacenter.org/km/
• Representations of Place and Space: Imagining Place page
• Artchive Landscape Tour

Creating Landscape, Creating Modern Identity: The American West

• 19th Century Visual Representations of the Southwest
• The Illustrating Traveller: Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Caribbean, 1760-1895
  • The Sublime and the Picturesque One, Two, Three
  • The Spirit of Place One, Two, Three
• Albert Bierstadt - Artrenewal site
  • Yosemite Valley
  • The Wolf River
  • Cho-Looke
  • Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite
• Hudson River School of Painting
• The West as America: Images OFFLINE
• Romantic Place: Quotations
• 20th Century Nature Romanticism
  • Ansel Adams
    • Ansel Adams bio
    • The History Place: Ansel Adams photos
    • Ansel Adams Landscapes
    • Ansel Adams at 100
  • Thomas Kinkade
• WestWeb - Resources on the American (and Canadian) West
  • The Canadian West
  • Mapping the West

Looking at Modern Art

The Visual Elements: Grammar

• Line
• Shape
• Light and Dark
• Colour
• Texture

Organizing the Elements: Design

• Unity
• Balance
• Rhythm
• Proportion

Perceiving the Elements: Aesthetics

• Whitney Biennial