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Nature and Culture By Barbara Novak

Oxford, 323 pp., $35 It’s a pleasure to come across a book by a learned professor versed in fields other than her specialty, particularly one who couches her thoughts in jargonless English. Barbara Novak’s Nature and Culture, a study of nineteenth century American landscape painting and the philosophical and literary climate that nurtured it, is such a book: erudite, provocative, and necessary reading for those interested in America’s cultural and artistic past.

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Nature and Culture By Barbara Novak

Oxford, 323 pp., $35 It’s a pleasure to come across a book by a learned professor versed in fields other than her specialty, particularly one who couches her thoughts in jargonless English. Barbara Novak’s Nature and Culture, a study of nineteenth century American landscape painting and the philosophical and literary climate that nurtured it, is such a book: erudite, provocative, and necessary reading for those interested in America’s cultural and artistic past.