The Niagara companion : explorers, artists and writers at the Falls, from discovery through the twentieth century / Linda L. Revie.

Main entry:

Revie, Linda L. (Linda Lee), 1962-

Title & Author:

The Niagara companion : explorers, artists and writers at the Falls, from discovery through the twentieth century / Linda L. Revie.

Publication:

Description:

x, 212 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index.
Introduction -- Indian icons and wilderness ideals -- Challenges of the Niagara sublime -- Naturalist observations and feats of physical endurance -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie considers how three centuries of fine art depictions and travel narratives were influenced by the earliest European encounters with the waterfall. Even long after Niagara had become a tourist mecca, it was often drawn as a primordial wilderness - a place where civilization vies with wildness, artifice with nature, fear with control, the natural with the mastered. Throughout this history of images and narratives, as humans struggle to control nature, the notion of wildness prevailed."--Jacket

ISBN:

0889204330 (paperback)
9780889204331 (paperback)

Subject:

Niagara Falls (Ont.) In art.
Literature
Travel
Niagara Falls (Ont.) Description and travel.
Niagara Falls (Ont.) In literature.
Niagara Falls (Ont.) History.
Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.) Description and travel.
Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.) History.
Niagara Falls (Ont.) Descriptions et voyages.
Niagara Falls (Ont.) dans l'art.
Niagara Falls (Ont.) dans la littérature.
Niagara Falls (Ont.) Histoire.
Niagara, Région des chutes du (N.Y. et Ont.) Descriptions et voyages.
Niagara, Région des chutes du (N.Y. et Ont.) Histoire.
North America Niagara Falls Region
Ontario Niagara Falls

Form/genre:

In art.
Art
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 243370
Call No.: FC3095.N53 R48 2003
Status: Available

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