The Spirit and the Vision: The Influence of Christian Romanticism on the Development of 19th-century American Art
- ISBN-10
- 155540975X
- ISBN-13
- 9781555409753
- Category
- Art and religion
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Description
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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