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Forging An American Culture

Forging An American Culture. 1790-1860. Why Study Culture?. Art and literature are the ultimate expression of a nation’s identity They are the product of the society’s collective experience Culture can be used to underscore and reinforce themes taught in class. Art: Portraiture.

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Forging An American Culture

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  1. Forging An American Culture 1790-1860

  2. Why Study Culture? • Art and literature are the ultimate expression of a nation’s identity • They are the product of the society’s collective experience • Culture can be used to underscore and reinforce themes taught in class

  3. Art: Portraiture Gilbert Stuart

  4. Art: Portraiture George Catlin

  5. Art: Portraiture

  6. Art: Landscape

  7. Art: Landscape Albert Bierstadt

  8. Art: Landscape Thomas Cole

  9. Art: Landscape

  10. Art: Man in Nature George Caleb Bingham

  11. Art: Man in Nature

  12. Common Man

  13. Art: Man in Nature

  14. Art: Man in Nature

  15. Nature Studies John Audubon

  16. Art: Heroism & Patriotism

  17. Neoclassicism

  18. Neoclassicism

  19. Neoclassicism

  20. Neoclassicism

  21. Neoclassicism

  22. Neoclassicism

  23. Neogothic

  24. Neogothic

  25. Literature: Themes • P • I • C • M • I • N • E

  26. Literature: Themes • Past • Imagination • Common Man & Democracy • Mystery & Supernatural • Individualism • Nature (Love of Nature & its Wisdom) • Emotion over Reason

  27. Literature: Writers • Herman Melville: Moby Dick • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter • James Fennimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales • Henry David Thoreau: Walden • Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson • Poetry of William Cullen Bryant • Stories of Edgar Allan Poe & Washington Irving

  28. American Music • No major orchestral composers • Few cities had their own symphonies or large performances • Orchestral music reflected romantic elements • Most popular music focused on common man themes

  29. American Music Buffalo Gals I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking And he knees was a-knockin' and her shoes was a'rockin' I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking And we danced by the light of the moon CHORUS: Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight Come out tonight come out tonight Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight And we'll dance by the light of the moon

  30. Stephen Collins Foster • Pioneer in American Music • One of the first to write popular music with wide appeal • Oh Susanna • Camptown Races • The Old Folks at Home (state song of Florida)

  31. Selected Bibliography • ·Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1997. • Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM). Macmillan Digital USA, 1996. • www.allaboutartists.com • www.artcyclopedia.com

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