Lecture 13 Monday February 23, 2004

The Hudson River School; and Popular Romanticism Today

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Announcements:

(1)  Krech this week

(2) Assignments due today

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I. Hudson River School, continued

Influences on the Hudson River School:

Claude Lorraine

William Gilpin

Edmund Burke

“Operatic” versus “Luminous” styles of landscape painting

Claude Lorrain, b. 1600 d. 1682

1.) Landscape with Shepherds

2.) Apollo and Mercury

3.) Harbor Scene

4.) Landscape with Merchants

5.) Harbor Scene with the Grieving Heliades

6.) Landscape with the Finding of Moses

7.) Landscape with Paris

8.) Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia

Frederick Church

1.) Natural Bridge

2.) Niagara

3.) La Magdalena

4.) In the Tropics

5.) Rainy Season in the Tropics

6.) Heart of the Andes

7.) The Icebergs

8.) Twilight in the Wilderness

Sister Wendy Beckett’s commentary on Twilight in the Wilderness

 

Martin Johnson Heade

1.) Lake George

2.) Newburyport Meadows

 

II. Popular Romanticism today

Significance for environmental ethics and environmental management

Historical treatments include T.J. Jackson Lears No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920

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Edward Goldsmith: Blueprint for Survival

            The Way: An Ecological World-View

Chris Manes: Green Rage: The Unmaking of Civilization

Romanticism and the "Ecological Indian":

Annie Booth and Harvey Jacobs: “Ties That Bind: Native American Beliefs as a Foundation for Environmental Consciousness” Environmental Ethics 1990.

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