{"product_id":"crossroads-9780300263824","title":"Crossroads","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn investigation into how landscape drawing informed a new Dutch identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, amid enormous expansion in global commerce and colonisation, landscape drawing played a key role in forging Dutch national identity. Featuring works on paper by Rembrandt, Bruegel, and Ruisdael, among dozens of other artists, this study examines how a hyperlocal impulse in many of these drawings inspired domestic pride and a sense of connection to the land, as they also reflected aspects of the broader ecological and social change taking place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncisive essays offer close readings that push our understandings of these artists and their work in important new directions, including eco-criticism, land use and environmentalism, race, and class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470362263788,"sku":"9780300263824","price":95.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300263824-crossroads.jpg?v=1775217306","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/crossroads-9780300263824","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}