{"id":97544,"date":"2020-09-22T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=97544"},"modified":"2020-09-22T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:52:00","slug":"antebellum-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/antebellum-central-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Antebellum Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/50372766262\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97545 size-full\" title=\"Winslow Homer, The Drive in the Central Park, New York, September 1860, from Harper's Weekly, September 15, 1860,  wood engraving on paper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/The-Drive-in-the-Central-Park-New-York-September-1860-by-Winslow-Homer.jpg\" alt=\"Winslow Homer, The Drive in the Central Park, New York, September 1860, from Harper's Weekly, September 15, 1860,  wood engraving on paper\" width=\"639\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/The-Drive-in-the-Central-Park-New-York-September-1860-by-Winslow-Homer.jpg 639w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/The-Drive-in-the-Central-Park-New-York-September-1860-by-Winslow-Homer-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>Less than a year before the war broke out, Central Park bore little resemblance to the park many of us know today from film and pictures or, for many of us, the opportunity of having visited there.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Image information:<\/h3>\n<p>Winslow Homer, The Drive in the Central Park, New York, September 1860, from Harper&#8217;s Weekly, September 15, 1860,\u00a0 wood engraving on paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/artwork\/drive-central-park-new-york-september-1860-harpers-weekly-september-15-1860-37053\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">Smithsonian American Art Museum<\/a>, The Ray Austrian Collection, gift of Beatrice L. Austrian, Caryl A. Austrian and James A. Austrian, 1996.63.109 (Accessed 9-22-2020)<\/p>\n<p>This image showing Central Park in Progress \u2014 simultaneously under construction and in use \u2014 suggests that it is not the formal aesthetic moves that make the landscape Central Park, but rather the array of instruments at work (carriage drives, horses, top hats, may poles, topograhic slopes) that constantly make and remake the landscape.<br \/>\n(Davis, Brian. &#8220;Landscapes and Instruments.&#8221; Landscape Journal 32, no. 2 (2013): 293-308. Accessed September 22, 2020. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/43323945\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">www.jstor.org\/stable\/43323945<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This image has not been adjusted or edited, just resized, from image downloaded from Smithsonian American Art Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a year before the war broke out, Central Park bore little resemblance to the park many of us know today from film and pictures or, for many of us, the opportunity of having visited there. Image information: Winslow Homer, The Drive in the Central Park, New York, September 1860, from Harper&#8217;s Weekly, September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-harpers-weekly"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}