{"id":832,"date":"2015-11-07T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/?p=832"},"modified":"2015-11-07T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:17:20","slug":"the-culture-of-nature-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/11\/07\/the-culture-of-nature-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Culture of Nature: Garden Design, East and West, lecture 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3:00\u20134:00pm\u00a0 <strong>Anna Marley, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cThe Garden as Picture: Impressionism, Progressivism and the American Garden Movement\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author\u2019s abstract:<\/strong> Dr. Marley\u2019s recent exhibition and publication The Artist\u2019s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, explores the intertwining stories of American artists, Impressionism and the growing popularity of gardening as a leisure pursuit at the turn of the twentieth century. Diverse fine art and material culture illuminate how the horticultural and visual arts in this period were manifestations of an emerging national Progressive era middle-class American identity. Up and down the eastern seaboard, a middle-class idyll was brought to life with the construction of railways, trams, and parkways that connected city centers to commuter suburbs, whose inhabitants increasingly turned to gardening as a leisure\u2014and predominantly female\u2014pursuit. Exploring gardens across the United States, with special emphasis on the importance of the Philadelphia area which served as the originator of the Colonial Revival Garden, Marley\u2019s talk focuses on the intersection of Progressive era movements; including women\u2019s suffrage, nativism, and a burgeoning environmentalism, with American artists\u2019 reworking of French Impressionist principles first introduced in the United States in 1886. By employing the interdisciplinary perspectives of horticultural and art history, Marley reveals the far-reaching effects of the ideas of Impressionism on not just painting, but American culture at large.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marley\u2019s \u00a0exhibition, nominated for a prestigious Global Fine Arts Award, examines\u00a0American Impressionists and the growing popularity of gardening as a middle-class leisure pursuit at the turn of the 20th century. \u00a0It is informed by Jackson Lears&#8217;s understanding of Progressivism,\u00a0<em>No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How did the\u00a0lower classes respond\u00a0to the revised expectations and norms of\u00a0the bourgeois? Where\u00a0do\u00a0men and women imbibing\u00a0Marx, organizing unions, and agitating for the vote fit in? Where did\u00a0Gilded Age businessmen and financiers fit (or not fit) in this social hierarchy?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3:00\u20134:00pm\u00a0 Anna Marley, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts \u201cThe Garden as Picture: Impressionism, Progressivism and the American Garden Movement\u201d Author\u2019s abstract: Dr. Marley\u2019s recent exhibition and publication The Artist\u2019s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, explores the intertwining&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/11\/07\/the-culture-of-nature-4\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250545],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}