The Spirit and the Vision The Influence of Christian Romanticism on the Development of 19th-Century American Art
by Apostolos-Cappadona, DianeFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-01-02
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Emergence of Christian Romanticism in Antebellum America | p. 13 |
| The Creation of a Christian Romantic Culture: The Clergy, An American Art, Nature and the Home | p. 39 |
| Entry into the Garden: Washington Allston and the Emergence of a Christian Romantic Aesthetic in America | p. 69 |
| The Garden Regained: Thomas Cole and Landscape Painting as Christian Romantic Rhetoric | p. 105 |
| The Return to the Wilderness: Frederic Edwin Church and the Transformation of the American Landscape | p. 171 |
| Conclusions | p. 203 |
| Bibliography | p. 207 |
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