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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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Book category Books in English The arts Art treatments & subjects Religious subjects depicted in art

• Full title: Spirit and the Vision
• Author: Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9781555409753
• ISBN: 155540975X
• ID: 04807438
• Publisher: OUP USA
• Weight: 256 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 154 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. January 1995

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