A longtime collector and owner of two fine art galleries, Alterman wanted to create a user-friendly book intended not only to educate collectors and enthusiasts about this art but to help train one's eye. Alterman, an expert in the field of Pennsylvania Impressionist and Modernist painting.

New Hope for American Art was authored, designed and published by James M. In this book, you'll find biographies and artwork from such artists as: This book, with its 612 pages and over 1,000 color plates of artwork include biographies of 165 individual Pennsylvania Impressionists and New Hope Modernists as well as artists from the Philadelphia Ten, a pioneering group of women all educated at Philadelphia art schools. Furthermore, they anticipate and inform the environmentalism of Spanish American literature in particular and, as such, ought to be considered an essential element of environmentalist discourse in general, especially if that movement wishes to include local perspectives on such a globally important ecological asset as the Amazonian selva.New Hope for American Art is the most comprehensive book ever published on artists from, and surrounding, the New Hope Art Colony (also known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists). These works are precursors to the literary environmentalism of Sepulveda's novel and deserve a place in the canon of the novela de la selva. However, I propose a counter-tradition in the novela de la selva genre that expresses aspects of environmentalism such as the principles of 'deep ecology,' the role of emotion in nature protectionism, conservationism, the rights of nonhuman nature, etc. I find that many of the well-established titles from the genre utilize a discourse of political ecology that can be characterized by its appeals to agents of the state.

In this paper, I begin with the identification of a moment of intertextuality between Un viejo que leia novelas de amor (1989) by Chilean Luis Sepulveda and La vorágine (1924) by Colombian Jose Eustasio Rivera as an analytical motif for a reevaluation of the environmentalism and political ecologies in the Spanish American novela de la selva tradition.

El vampiro by Horacio Quiroga