Americans in ever increasing numbers are rediscovering the prairie. This vast inland sea of grasses, buried for a hundred years beneath farms, cities, and suburbs, has endured not only in physical remnants but also in the memories of its settlers and their descendants, the books of prairie authors, and the work of prairie artists. As restoration ecologists and amateur prairie preservationists recover the land, this book recovers the prairie of the American imaginationpast, present, and future.Beautifully illustrated with the work of sixteen contemporary prairie artists, Recovering the Prairie celebrates and examines the perspectives of artists, writers, native peoples, ecologists, and landscape architectsWilla Cather, Aldo Leopold, Jens Jensen, Alexander Gardner, and many otherswho recognized the unique beauty of the prairie. And, this volume brings together people from many fields to consider the connections between aesthetics and economics, landscape and culture, politics and ethics, as illustrated by the prairie in American civilization.Contributors and artists include:Robert AdamsLee AllenRoger BrownJames D. ButlerPauline DrobneyFred EaskerTerry EvansEd FolsomLance M. FosterHarold L. GregorRobert E. GreseWalter HatkeHarold D. HolounStan HurdGary IrvingWes JacksonKeith JacobshagenJoni L. KinseyStuart KlipperAldo LeopoldTom LutzCurt MeineGenie H. PatrickDavid PlowdenRebecca RobertsRobert F. SayreJane E. SimonsonShelton StromquistJames R. Winn
Americans in ever increasing numbers are rediscovering the prairie. This vast inland sea of grasses, buried for a hundred years beneath farms, cities, and suburbs, has endured not only in physical remnants but also in the memories of its settlers and their descendants, the books of prairie authors, and the work of prairie artists. As restoration ecologists and amateur prairie preservationists recover the land, this book recovers the prairie of the American imaginationpast, present, and future.Beautifully illustrated with the work of sixteen contemporary prairie artists, Recovering the Prairie celebrates and examines the perspectives of artists, writers, native peoples, ecologists, and landscape architectsWilla Cather, Aldo Leopold, Jens Jensen, Alexander Gardner, and many otherswho recognized the unique beauty of the prairie. And, this volume brings together people from many fields to consider the connections between aesthetics and economics, landscape and culture, politics and ethics, as illustrated by the prairie in American civilization.Contributors and artists include:Robert AdamsLee AllenRoger BrownJames D. ButlerPauline DrobneyFred EaskerTerry EvansEd FolsomLance M. FosterHarold L. GregorRobert E. GreseWalter HatkeHarold D. HolounStan HurdGary IrvingWes JacksonKeith JacobshagenJoni L. KinseyStuart KlipperAldo LeopoldTom LutzCurt MeineGenie H. PatrickDavid PlowdenRebecca RobertsRobert F. SayreJane E. SimonsonShelton StromquistJames R. Winn
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