# Kelly Presutti

**Source**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/kelly-presutti
**Parent**: https://americanstudies.cornell.edu/faculty

## Assistant Professor

### Publications

**Book:**

[*Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France*](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273946/land-into-landscape/)(Yale University Press, 2024).

**Select Articles and Book Chapters:**

[“Foul Histories and Forgotten Objects: French Entanglement in the South Pacific,”](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00043079.2025.2537611) *The Art Bulletin* 107, no. 3 (2025), 39-64. 

“‘Brutal Magic’: Staging Human-Environmental Relations in the Anthropocene,” *19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century* 38 (2025), <https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.17127>  

[“Wood and Stone: Bernard Palissy’s Environmental Legacy,”](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/734020) *Metropolitan Museum Journal*59 (2024), 58-72. 

[“‘A Better Idea than the Best Constructed Charts’: Watercolor Views in Early British Hydrography,”](https://www.greyroom.org/issues/85/125/a-better-idea-than-the-best-constructed-charts-watercolor-views-in-early-british-hydrography/) *Grey Room*85 (Fall 2021), 70-99.

[“The Sèvres’ *Service des Départements*and the Anxiety of the Fragment,”](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666286.2021.1866480) *Word & Image* 37, no. 1 (2021), 21-31.

“Transplanting Visions: Barbizon Artists and Louisiana Landscapes,” in Katie Pfohl, ed. [*Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana*](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300247312/inventing-acadia/)(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), 59-83.