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19 th Century Intellectual Movements

19 th Century Intellectual Movements. Chapter 15. Neo – Classicism - Architectural style that reflected democratic ideals by imitating Greek & Roman themes. Greek Revival. Palladian. Transcendentalism.

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19 th Century Intellectual Movements

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  1. 19th Century Intellectual Movements Chapter 15

  2. Neo – Classicism -Architectural style that reflected democratic ideals by imitating Greek & Roman themes Greek Revival Palladian

  3. Transcendentalism • Connected to Unitarian religious beliefs (which emerged as a reaction to the 1st Great Awakening) • Truth transcends the senses, anti-emotionalism of 2nd great Awakening • Every person possesses the inner light that can lead them to the highest truth & be in touch with God • Intellectual reason as the path to divine reason • Religious & social individualism • Dignity of the individual regardless of race • Writers • Henry David Thoreau • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Margaret Fuller • Walt Whitman

  4. Washington Irving, RW Emerson, HW Logfellow, JF Cooper & pals

  5. Romanticism • Reaction to the rationality of the Enlightenment • Emphasized imagination over reason • Nature over civilization • Elevation of primeval nature, untouched by man • Heroic individualism • Gothic & supernatural elements • Writers • Washington Irving • James Fennimore Cooper • William Cullen Bryant

  6. Hudson River School • Romantic art form (1820 -1850s) centered around • Early artists focused on natural scenes from the Hudson River area (NY/NJ) • Later canvases focused on modern man’s encroachment on Nature • Eventually go on to depict natural landscapes in the west and S. America • Artists • Thomas Cole • Frederick Church • Asher B. Durand • Albert Bierstadt

  7. Thomas Cole

  8. Asher B. Durand

  9. Frederick Church

  10. Frederick Church

  11. Albert Bierstadt

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