Question 7

Student Citation: According to art historian Barbara Novak, nineteenth-century painters were "priests of the natural church," destined to communicate the divine nature of the American landscape through visual representation (9).1

Student Footnote: 1. In 1980’s Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875, Novak argues that the connections contemporary society made between the divine and the natural world resulted in a values-based constraint upon landscape artists, who had to be concerned with their "moral duties" as well as their aesthetic ones (9).

Is this an example of a useful, properly-formatted citation and footnote?

a) No, there is not enough source documentation in the body of the paper

b) Yes, both are formatted accurately and the footnote provides useful additional information

c) No, both are formatted accurately but the footnote is not helpful

d) No, there is not enough source documentation in the footnote


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