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Davis, John. "Picturing Palestine: The Holy Land in Nineteenth-century," American Art and Culture, Columbia University, January 1991. (13, 2, 16)
The thesis charts the formation of a specific cultural market in the United States for landscape imagery of the Holy Land. It discusses the primacy of popular representations in exploiting the national thirst for Holy Land views and shows how four easel painters tapped into this current, producing landscapes responsive to particular conditions of patronage, religious belief, scientific theory, and anti-Arab/Turk sentiment. Each painter was able to capitalize on the appeal of Holy Land imagery, using aggressive promotional tactics to isolate and cultivate their public and shape its understanding of their work.
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