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Art, Literature, & Reform. Between 1830 -1860 American art flourished Prior to this period American artists looked to Europe for inspiration 1830s artists discover American landscape
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Art, Literature, & Reform Between 1830 -1860 American art flourished Prior to this period American artists looked to Europe for inspiration 1830s artists discover American landscape During the age of Manifest Destiny tensions between the wilderness & civilization inspire a generation of artists and writers
Thomas Cole & Asher Durand most well known Hudson River School Artists Asher Durand Kindred Spirits
George Catlin, Sioux Encampment on Upper Missouri Dressing, Buffalo Meat and Robes 1832
Transcendentalist Believed: Humans could improve their world by establishing a closer spiritual tie with nature Nature held the higher laws of the universe and ultimate reality
Ralph Waldo Emerson Believed: Human spirit was reflected in nature The accumulation of material wealth secondary to nature & higher laws of God
Henry David Thoreau Walden Civil Disobedience
James Fenimore Cooper- Leather Stocking Tales Depicts resourceful frontier hero Natty Bumpo. He lacked manors and refinement for the East, but had the survival skills needed for the West.
Washington Irving- Local Tales, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, & Rip Van Winkle Contrasted the change in America from our rural past to a nation of modern cities.
Nathaniel Hawthorne- Scarlet Letter & House of the Seven Gables Work reflected Puritan influence and criticized excessive Individualism.
Herman Melville- Moby Dick Portrayed the limits of mans’ power and technology in the face of Nature
Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass Celebrated the common people. First poet of American democracy.