| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
109 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-103) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond / Barbara Newington -- Foreword: The Great Experiment / Frederick Turner -- Introduction: The Moral Landscape -- pt. 1. Paradise Found -- 1. Seeing -- 2. Virtue -- 3. Chivalry -- 4. Spirituality -- 5. Beauty -- 6. Nature -- 7. Eden -- 8. Light -- 9. Christendom -- 10. Architecture -- 11. Standards -- 12. America -- pt. 2. Paradise Lost -- 13. History -- 14. Western Civilization -- 15. Order -- pt. 3. Paradise Regained -- 16. Renewal. |
| Summary |
"This work of cultural criticism analyzes the masterpieces of the Hudson River School, America's golden age of landscape painting that flourished from almost 1825 to 1860. Iconic works by Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Asher Brown Durand, and others are examined in relation to the religious, moral, and aesthetic sensibility that underlies their work. For these painters there was a moral purpose in being an artist; art was a sacred obligation. Perhaps not since the Middle Ages had a school of art infused such religious certitude into works of art."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Values -- United States -- History.
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Hudson River school of landscape painting.
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Hudson River school of landscape painting. (OCoLC)fst00962681
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Values. (OCoLC)fst01163906
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cooper, James F., 1935- Knights of the brush. 1st ed. New York : Hudson Hills Press, ©1999 (OCoLC)760030660 |
| ISBN |
1555951805 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781555951801 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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