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Illustrations

Aaron Sachs

Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

Illustrations

Author

Aaron Sachs

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23869

Illustrations

1. W. H. Bartlett, Cemetery of Mount Auburn, 1839

2. Nicolas Poussin, The Shepherds of Arcadia (Et in Arcadia Ego), 1640

3. J. M. Wilgus, Map of the City of Ithaca, NY, 1896

4. Alexander Wadsworth, Plan of Mount Auburn, 1831

5. Yellow Belle-Fleur, 1850

6. The Kanadesaga monument, Geneva, NY, 2010

7. Charles Sullivan, Great Mound at Marietta, Ohio, 1848

8. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Desolation, 1836

9. John Bachmann, Bird’s Eye View of Greenwood Cemetery, near New York, 1852

10. Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, NY, 2010

11. B. G. Stone, View of Samsonville Tannery, Olive Township, Ulster County, New York, c. 1855

12. W. Endicott, Prattsville, Greene Co., N.Y., 1850

13. E. Baumann, North Western Part of Llewellyn Park, 1853

14. W. H. Bartlett, View of Hudson City, and the Catskill Mountains, 1840

15. Dearborn’s Seedling, 1850

16. B. F. Smith, Washington, D.C., with Projected Improvements, 1852

17. Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or Pastoral State, 1836

18. Thomas Cole, Dream of Arcadia, c. 1838

19. Thomas Cole, Evening in Arcady, 1843

20. Thomas Cole, A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch), 1839

21. Thomas Cole, Daniel Boone at His Cabin at Great Osage Lake, c. 1826

22. Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Manhood, 1840

23. Thomas Cole, The Cross in the Wilderness, 1845

24. Thomas Cole’s grave, Catskill, NY, 2010

25. Asher Brown Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849

26. Frederic Edwin Church, To the Memory of Cole, 1848

27. John Quidor, The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, 1858

28. Civil War amputee Lieutenant Burritt Stiles, Co. A, 14th Connecticut Volunteers, 1867

29. “Ft. Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn.,” 1863

30. George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856

31. Sanford Robinson Gifford, Hunter Mountain, Twilight, 1866

32. Timothy H. O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, 1863

33. Alfred Waud, “Wounded Escaping from the Burning Woods of the Wilderness,” 1864

34. Winslow Homer, Skirmish in the Wilderness, 1864

35. Winslow Homer, The Initials, 1864

36. Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Quarters of Men in Fort Sedgwick, 1865

37. Winslow Homer, Trooper Meditating beside a Grave, c. 1865

38. Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, 1865

39. Pileated woodpecker, near Finland, MN, 1989

40. Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak, 1863

41. Albert Bierstadt, Valley of the Yosemite, 1864

42. Dayton National Cemetery, 2011

43. Civil War amputee Lieutenant Burritt Stiles, Co. A, 14th Connecticut Volunteers (with prosthetic), 1867

44. Louis Kurz, National Soldiers’ Home near Milwaukee, Wis., North-Western Branch, between 1872 and 1878

45. Grave of Benjamin Tevya Sachs, 2010

46. Farview Park, Minneapolis, MN, 2010

47. Indian Mounds Park, St. Paul, MN, c. 1900

48. Gold Medal Park, Minneapolis, MN, 2010

49. Grave of H. W. S. Cleveland, Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, 2010

50. Thomas Cole, Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge, 1829

51. Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, 1836

52. Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930

53. A playground in a cemetery, Newburgh, NY, 2010

54. Bartlett, 1850

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BOOKArcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

Aaron Sachs

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23867

Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidly expanding cities, making nature accessible to all and serving to remind visitors of the natural cycles of life. In this unique interdisciplinary blend of historical narrative, cultural criticism, and poignant memoir, Aaron Sachs argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis.

Until the trauma of the Civil War, many Americans sought to shape society into what they thought of as an Arcadia—not an Eden where fruit simply fell off the tree, but a public garden that depended on an ethic of communal care, and whose sense of beauty and repose related directly to an acknowledgement of mortality and limitation. Sachs explores the notion of Arcadia in the works of nineteenth-century nature writers, novelists, painters, horticulturists, landscape architects, and city planners, and holds up for comparison the twenty-first century's—and his own—tendency toward denial of both death and environmental limits. His far-reaching insights suggest new possibilities for the environmental movement today and new ways of understanding American history.

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Aaron Sachs

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date January 2013 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300176407

EISBN 9780300276640

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