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OPEN BOOKS – OPEN MINDS. Across Time and Space: Art, Exploitation, and Material Diversity in PYM Bob Dilworth. Why the Art of 19 th Century American Landscape Painting in Pym?. The art in Pym is an amalgamate of works by: Thomas Cole Albert Bierstadt Frederick Edwin Church - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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OPEN BOOKS – OPEN MINDS
Across Time and Space: Art, Exploitation, and Material Diversity in PYM
Bob Dilworth
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Why the Art of 19th Century American Landscape Painting in Pym?
• The art in Pym is an amalgamate of works by: • Thomas Cole• Albert Bierstadt • Frederick Edwin Church• William Turner• Edward Mitchell Bannister • Robert Duncanson• Perhaps embodied in the contemporary art and personality
of Thomas Kinkade!
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Across Space and Time: William Turner Matters
• Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying-Typhoon (The Slave Ship) 1840
• At the Heart of Pym is the Slave Story of Dirk Peters (The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano?)
All great adventures begin at sea.
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William Turner: Painter of Atmosphere and Light• Burial At Sea 1842• Turner stated – Not persuaded
Pym begins as a Mystery Novel – a statement about and search for the origins of the pathology of race. Burial and resurrection are recurring themes.
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William Turner• Sun Setting Over a Lake 1840• Gestures that Imply Light• New, English, and free of Romantic Notions
The search for Dirk Peters guides us through the narrative.
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William Turner
• Snow Storm 1842• Turns into swirls of paint and texture – a statement about the
act of painting.
Arthur Gordon PymIs lost and the narrative seems buried in time andapathy, but found again through Dirk Peters.
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ExploitationIn Steps the Claim of Manifest Destiny
• Land = Material Wealth (Agrarian Culture)• Therefore, it provided a rhetorical tone for Acquisition of
Territory – To Spread!• Mission to Redeem and Remake (from whom or what?) the
New West• Ordained by Providence, it sought a new earth to build a new
heaven• It Implied Expansion of Slavery, the other material property
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Thomas Cole
• The Oxbow, 1836• On the Left Mountains – On the Right Farmland
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Edward Bannister• Approaching Storm 1886
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Thomas Cole
• Catskills Mountains – The Four Elements 1827
• Garth’s First Request?
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Thomas Cole• Shroon Mountain 1838• Is Garth Seeking His Heaven On Earth? Seeking To Redeem and Remake His Life?
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Thomas Cole
• View in the White Mountains 1827
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Robert Duncanson
• Land of the Lotus Eaters 1861
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Robert Duncanson
• Blue Hole, flood Waters, Little Miami River, 1851
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Albert Bierstadt
• A Yearning for a Simpler life such as In The Foothills 1861• Garth and Chris yearned for such a life
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Thomas Cole
• Expulsion, Moon and Firelight 1827 (Series)• The Journey of Men – The Evolution of Civilization
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The Art:Now Comes Romanticism and Pastoralism
• Romanticism: Reaction against Industrial Revolution, Scientific rationalization, Aristocratic and Political norms of the times.
• Embraced the exotic, the unfamiliar, the distant.• Vouched for the Individual Power of the Imagination to
Envision and Escape.• Pastoralism: In a Nutshell - Supporting oneself on the Land• A Place where Humans and Animals Coexist Peacefully
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Albert Bierstadt
• Bierstadt joined several journeys on the Westward Expansion and painted scenes like this one; Looking Down Yosemite Valley 1865
• He became the leading artist of these scenes throughout the 19th c• Also seen as Interpretations: Synthesis of many scenes completed in the studio.
Photos, sketches, images taken in the west but painted in the East.
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Albert Bierstadt• Paintings such as Storm in the Mountains (1870) Represented
three themes: Discovery, Exploration and Settlement• Also Three Major themes in the Book Pym
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Albert Bierstadt
• Lake Lucerne 1858• Paintings such as this were Defined by light, Color, Raw but
Idealized Nature, Sublime, Realistic, Closeness to God
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Albert Bierstadt• Sunset In Yosemite Valley
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Albert Bierstadt
• Mount Rainier• Could this be the painting “Shackleton’s Sorrow”?
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Albert Bierstadt
• In Western Mountains
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Albert Bierstadt
• Tropical Landscape with Fishing
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Material Reality
• A Parallel theme in Pym is Material Reality:• What can be explained on one level can be explained on
others.• Questions - What is the Material Reality in the landscapes of
Pym?• What do they mean? • Discovery, Exploration, and Exploitation of Resources become
driving themes in the second half of the novel• Material Reality takes on a sinister role
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Frederic Edwin Church
• In Search of Pompeii• Pym, In search of Tsalal
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Frederic Edwin Church• Iceberg and Wreck in Sunset• Pym, A land forbidden and dangerous – not of this world, “Frozen
nothing. Nihilism in physical form.”
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Frederic Edwin Church• The Iceberg 1891• The wilderness with no evidence of man’s intrusion, the iceberg stands as an omen
of doom.
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Frederic Edwin Church • Iceberg 1874• Pym, Discovery comes with a high price
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Frederic Edwin Church• The Iceberg 1859• Pym, Death comes unexpectedly, suddenly, without reason
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Frederic Edwin Church
• Home Top • Church’s House with integrated environment
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Thomas Cole• Desolation 1836• Pym, The world has ceased to exist beyond the Antarctic
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Albert Bierstadt• Evening Owens Lake, California