Appendix

Plein Air Playlist

 

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Plein Air

Suggested Reading

Plein Air and Impressionism

Adams, Steven. The Barbizon School & the Origins of Impressionism. London: Phaidon Press, 1994.

Alsdorf, Bridget. “Manet’s Quarrel with Impressionism.” In Cezanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.

Callen, Anthea. The Work of Art: Plein-Air Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenth-Century France. London: Reaktion Books, 2015.

Clark, T.J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Eisenman, Stephen F., Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin, David L. Phillips, and Frances K. Pohl. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. 5th ed. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc, 2019.

Eisenman, Stephen, and Palazzo del Vittoriano (Rome, Italy), eds. From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism. 1st ed. Milano : New York: Skira ; Distribution in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2010.

Fried, Michael. What Was Literary Impressionism? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Herbert, Robert. Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

House, John.  Impressionism: Paint and Politics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

Lewis, Mary Tompkins. Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007.

Matz, Jesse. Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 

———. Lasting Impressions: The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. 

Moffett, Charles S. The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886. San Francisco, CA: The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1986.

Werth, Margaret. “Mallarme and Impressionism in 1876.” Nonsite (2019).

Primary Sources on Impressionism

Baudelaire, Charles. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. New York, NY: Phaidon Press, 1995. 

Fry, Roger. “The Post-Impressionists.” In The Roger Fry Reader. Edited by Christopher Reed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 

Leroy, Louis.  “L’Exposition des Impressionnistes,” Le Charivari (April 25, 1874). In Èloges et Critiques de L ’ Impressionnisme. Edited by Dominique Lobstein. Paris, France: Artlys, 2012.  

Mallarmé, Stephane. “The Impressionists and Edouard Manet.” The Art Monthly Review and Photographic Portfolio, 1876.

Thibebauly-Sisson, Francios. “Claude Monet: An Interview.” Le Temps (November 27, 1900). In John Rewald, The History of Impressionism. 1946. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1973.  

Philosophies of the Open Air and Landscape

Bachelard, Gaston, and M. Jolas. The Poetics of Space. New edition. Penguin Classics. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2014.

Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: NY: Verso Books, 2010.

Cole, Teju. Blind Spot. New York, NY: Random House, 2017. 

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1994.

Mitchell, W. J. T., ed. Landscape and Power. 2nd edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Sheikh, Fazal. The Erasure Trilogy. Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2015.

Beyond France

Bahn, Paul G. “Open-Air Ice Age Art.” In Prehistoric Art as Prehistoric Culture. Edited by Paul G. Bahn and Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez, 79–92. Studies in Honour of Professor Rodrigo de Balbín-Behrmann. Archaeopress, 2015. 

Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. 

Blum, Hester. The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 

Brown, Adrienne. The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 

Cao, Maggie. The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2018. 

Cannon, Christopher. The Grounds of English Literature. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. 

Crozier, Richard, and Thomas Bolt. Inventing the Landscape: From Plein Air Study to Studio Painting. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1989.

Dimock, Wai Chee. Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 

Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 

Kilmer, Nicholas. Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist. Princeton: NJ, 2001. 

Luijten, Ger, Mary G Morton, Jane Munro, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Fondation Custodia, and Fitzwilliam Museum. True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780-1870, 2020.

Heurer, Christopher P. Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image. New York, NY: Zone Books, 2019. 

Houser, Heather. Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2020. 

Perry, Rachel Berenson. Painting Indiana III. Indiana University Press, 2013. 

Posmentier, Sonya. Culture and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 

Prendeville, Brendan. “Sculpting With Air.” Ambit, no. 220 (2015): 46–53.

Stern, Jean, William H Gerdts, and Irvine Museum. Masters of Light: Plein-Air Painting in California, 1890-1930. Irvine, Calif.: Irvine Museum, 2002.

Walkowitz, Rebecca. Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2006. 

Site-Specific Art and Method

Alworth, David. Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 

Anagnost, Adrian. “Lygia Pape in Transit: Performing Site in 1960s-1970s Rio de Janeiro.” ASAP/Journal 2, no. 3 (September 2017): 521-549. 

Blom, Ina. On the Style Site: Art, Sociality, and Media Culture. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2007.

Hodge, James J. “Earth-Specific Art: Phenomenology and the Digital Camera of Peter Bo Rappmund.” ASAP/Journal 2, no. 3 (September 2017): 579-601.  

Roberts, Jennifer L. Mirror Travels: Robert Smithson and History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

 ———. Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014. 

Reynolds, Ann. Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. 

Shaw, Lytle. Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

———. “lowercase theory and the site specific turn.” ASAP/Journal 2, no. 3 (September 2017): 653-676.  


Smithson, Robert. “Towards the Development of an Air Terminal Site.” Artforum, 1967.Bergthaller, Hannes. “Living in Bubbles: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherology and the Environmental Humanities.” In Spaces In-Between. Edited by Mark Luccarelli and Sigurd Bergmann, 163–75. Leiden and Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Brill Rodopi, 2015.