Description: American Sublime Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880 by Andrew Wilton & Tim Barringer Shop Villagelder's Books-N-Games From the back coverThe great landscape painters of nineteenth-century America produced some of the most extraordinary works of their time, yet they are little known in Europe today. The landscapes of the 'Hudson River' artists and their contemporaries were the logical extension - and conclusion - of the great tradition of landscape exemplified by Caspar David Friedrich, J.M.W. Turner, John Constable and the painters of the high romantic period. The founding master of the school, Thomas Cole, worked within the tradition of the English Romantics. But, in a rapidly changing and expanding nation, a strong sense of the unique symbolic significance of America scenery soon emerged, displayed in such archetypal subjects as Jasper Francis Cropsey's Autumn - on the Hudson River, and in the evangelical, often visionary, masterpieces of Frederic Edwin Church, perhaps the greatest of these painters. In Andrew Wilton's essay the achievement of these and other major figures such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, both pioneers in representing the awesome scenery of the American West, is placed in the context of the international art world and of the European landscape tradition. Tim Barringer explores ideas of national identity and empire of America, looking in particular at Thomas Cole's heroic cycle, The Course of Empire.
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Book Title: American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Topic: Art
Format: Paperback
Author: Andrew Wilton, Tim Barringer
Language: English
Genre: Art & Culture
