{"product_id":"glorious-country-how-the-artist-frederic-church-brought-the-world-to-america-and-america-to-the-world","title":"GLORIOUS COUNTRY: HOW THE ARTIST FREDERIC CHURCH BROUGHT THE WORLD TO AMERICA AND AMERICA TO THE WORLD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Eden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more—comes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American artist whose stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put the young republic on the map of world culture—published on Church’s bicentennial.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“They came to see the world.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York, spring 1859. Outside Frederic Church’s Tenth Street studio, men and women amassed by the thousands hoping for a glimpse of his magnificent \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHeart of the Andes\u003c\/span\u003e: a painting whose sublime, ‘near supernatural’ rendering of the vast Andean landscape encountered on the artist’s recent travels introduced thousands of Americans to the fierce, majestic beauty of the far-flung wildernesses of the globe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrederic Church brought the world to America, and America into the world.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eCementing the United States as a cultural and artistic force a full century before America’s Abstract Impressionists rose to prominence, Church’s bold paintings composed odes in color, shadow, and light to natural places near and far: the lush jungles of South America and immense icebergs of Newfoundland where he journeyed as a young man; the Syrian deserts and ancient, ruined cities where he and his wife traveled following the devastating loss of their two young children; the verdant, luminous valley around the Hudson where Church first studied painting and where he returned and established his estate, Olana, whose landscape itself became a work of art.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDeeply influenced by the work of Alexander von Humboldt, Church conjured a vision of the natural world as a place of communion with creation.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e448 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50000219046125,"sku":"130125","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/6017\/5085\/files\/GLORIOUSCOUNTRY1.jpg?v=1779399622","url":"https:\/\/thehuntingtonstore.org\/products\/glorious-country-how-the-artist-frederic-church-brought-the-world-to-america-and-america-to-the-world","provider":"The Huntington Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}