Jacob van Ruisdael’s Ecological Landscapes

Catherine Levesque is an Associate Professor at the College of William and Mary. Her previous book, Journey Through Landscape in Seventeenth-Century Holland: The Haarlem Print Series and Dutch Identity examines the role of print culture in providing a framework for developments in printed landscape series and subsequently paintings. She has also published on Pieter Bruegel, Gilles van Coninxloo, Joos de Momper, and Hercules Segers.

• List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, I Dunes: Man in Nature, Dune Landscapes and Pleasant Places, 'Duinen en Wildernissen', Dunes and Country Roads, The Dune Environment, II Grainfields: Making Landscape, Techn.: Labor and Landscape, The Wild and the Sown, Processes of Art: Processes of Nature, Point of View, III Ruins: Temporality and Transformation, Things Fall Apart: Broken Bridges, Monumental Ruins, Biological Time, Destruction and Reconstruction, IV Water: Matter in Motion, Mills and Millruns, Ocean, Waterfalls, V Woodlands and Marshes: Art and Nature, Woodlands, Realizing Vital Form, Sylva, Landscapes Tame and Wild, Conclusion, Index