Lecture 2_additional_hudson River School

American Literature 1900-1945

Survey Course Instructor: Mihai Mîndra

Lecture 2 American Romanticism Hudson River School (additional information)

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first coherent school of American art artists who came to maturity in the years of egalitarian Jacksonian (Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837) democracy and expansion celebrate the glories of the Hudson Valley

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helped to shape the mythos of the American landscape set about to heed Emerson's call "to ignore the courtly Muses of Europe" and define a distinct vision for American art.

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The Oxbow by Thomas Cole

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Kindred Spirits by Asher B. Durand

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John Quidor The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane

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The Return of Rip van Winkle by John Quidor

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The Gold Diggers by John Quidor

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landscape in the early 19th century--man could become more easily acquainted with the hand of God. ~~American Transcendentalists: the Hudson River painters created visual embodiments of the ideals about which Emerson, Thoreau, William Cullen Bryant, and Whitman wrote. art as an agent of moral and spiritual transformation.