The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture

by John Davis and John Davis

Book Overview

This book tells of the nineteenth-century American painters who, along with photographers, archaeologists, writers, evangelists, and tourists, flocked to the biblical Holy Land, a world of striking landscape vistas that reflected, in their eyes, a powerful image of the United States. Here they saw a metaphor for their country: a New World promised land, a divinely favored Protestant nation created by and for a modern "chosen people." Taking these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691058458
• ISBN13: 9780691058450
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.5"