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INTRO. TO AMERICAN ROMANTICISM (1800-1860)

Explore the era of American Romanticism that celebrated freedom, nature, and the common man while reacting against the Age of Reason. Discover key characteristics, artists like Albert Bierstadt, and the impact on literature, arts, and society during this transformative period.

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INTRO. TO AMERICAN ROMANTICISM (1800-1860)

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  1. INTRO. TO AMERICAN ROMANTICISM (1800-1860)

  2. The Age of Reason or The Enlightenment Founded on • Deism • Logic • Inalienable rights It also brought • Industrialization, growth of cities, and factories • American expansion (Lewis and Clark and Manifest Destiny) • More encounters with Native Americans Albert Bierstadt

  3. ROMANTICISM: THE MOVEMENT • Question: What comes to mind or what do you associate with the term “Romanticism” or “romantic”? • Definition- Romantic: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a style of literature and art that encourages freedom of treatment, emphasizes imagination, emotion, and introspection, and often celebrates nature, the ordinary person, and freedom of the spirit.

  4. Romanticism: a reaction to the Age of Reason Age of Reason Romanticism • Realism • Patrician Classicism • Dominion over the Native American • Logic, always facts to counter fear and doubt • Idealism/Utopia • Glorification of the common man • Recognition of the nobility of the primitive • Imagination to bring about faith and hope

  5. Individualism • Idealization of rural life • Enthusiasm for the wild, irregular, or grotesque in nature • Enthusiasm for the uncivilized or “natural” Characteristics of Romanticism The predominance of imagination over reason and formal rules Love of nature An interest in the past Mysticism

  6. The Five I’s Imagination Intuition Idealism Inspiration Individuality

  7. The City was a Place of . . . • The Rationalists saw the city as a place of industry, success, self realization, and civilization. • The Romantics saw the city as a place of poor work conditions, moral ambiguity, corruption, and death.

  8. The Journey Romanticism was often seen as a journey. • The journey from the city to the country • The journey from rational thought to the imagination

  9. Literature Folktales, regional writer Washington Irving The “Noble Savage” James Fennimore Cooper American Novelists looked to westward expansion and the frontier for inspiration.

  10. The Arts Romanticism was a movement across all the arts: visual art, music, and literature. All of the arts embraced themes prevalent in the Middle Ages: chivalry, courtly love. Shakespeare came back in style.

  11. Visual Arts: Examples Romantic Art Neoclassical Art

  12. Thomas Cole, “The Falls of Kaaterskill” (1826)

  13. Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, 1836)

  14. Asher Durand, “Kindred Spirits” (1848)

  15. Frederic Edwin Church, “The Natural Bridge” (1852)

  16. Alfred Bierstadt, “Emigrants Crossing the Plains” (1867)

  17. Alfred Bierstadt, “Looking Up the Yosemite Valley” (ca. 1865-67)

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