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Spirit and the Vision: The Influence of Christian Romanticism on the Development of 19th-Century Ame
by Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane
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Christian Romanticism was a response to social changes within nineteenth-century American culture, including women's literacy, spiritual domesticity, and the idealization of childhood. This book examines the work of three artists of the first American landscape tradition -- Washington Alston, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Edwin Church -- and two clergymen -- Horace Bushnell and Henry Ward Beecher. It assesses their understanding of the artist as a social and moral teacher, the didactic role of art in society more generally, and a God who acts in history. The author finds that the art of Allston, Cole, and Church expressed and served the dominant middle-class religious ideology of the time -- Christian Romanticism. This distinguishes their work from more elitist and regional work.
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- Oxford University Press Brand
- Jan 2, 1995 Pub Date:
- 155540975X ISBN-10:
- 9781555409753 ISBN-13:
- English Language
- 6.44 in * 0.6 in * 9 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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