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