The Spirit and the Vision: The Influence of Christian Romanticism on the Development of 19th-Century American Art

by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155540975X
• ISBN13: 9781555409753
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"