The Nude of Landscape Painting: Emblematic Personification in the Art of the Hudson River School

American Art ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
J. Gray Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Hudson River ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
Hudson River School

scholarly journals “‘The Mighty Meaning of the Scene’” Feminine Landscapes and the Future of America in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Kathleen Healey
Keyword(s):  
Hudson River ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
Margaret Fuller ◽  
Landscape Aesthetics ◽  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
The West ◽  
Hudson River School ◽  
The Future ◽  
Andrew Jackson Downing ◽  
The Ideal

Like many of her contemporaries, Margaret Fuller had great hopes for the West. The Western lands, open for America’s future, held the promise of what America could become. In Summer on the Lakes, Fuller sketches what she hopes America will become. Using the landscape aesthetics of her age, such as the work of Andrew Jackson Downing and the Hudson River School of landscape painting, Fuller describes the ideal landscape as one that is more feminine and nurturing, one in which humankind lives in harmony with nature. Fuller’s landscape descriptions both point to a better future for America and critique the values of her contemporaries. Fuller contrasts America’s more male vision of conquest of the land with her feminine ideal of harmony with nature—a cultivated garden—to show what America’s future should be, as it builds westward.

From Place to Presence: Landscapes and Transcendence

Tekstualia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Jeremy Scott Ecke
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
Gerard Manley Hopkins ◽  
Westward Expansion ◽  
Hudson River School ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Thomas Cole

Ranging from the Transcendental and Romantic writing of the nineteenth century through the experimental verse of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the iconic depictions of westward expansion in the landscape painting of Thomas Cole (and the Hudson River School), to the rural poetics of Robert Frost, this article argues that poets, like painters, must not merely sketch or describe the sublime or transcendental nature of a scene; they must capture its visual and emotional impact, and – through some artistic device – reenact its transcendence to move the reader or observer from place to presence.

“Only Surpassed by the Light of Revelation”

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Ann Beebe
Keyword(s):  
Hudson River ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
Hudson River School ◽  
Thomas Cole ◽  
William Cullen

Abstract Asher B. Durand (1796–1886) began his long career in the Hudson River School under the guidance of his mentor, Thomas Cole (1801–1848). Influenced by the death of Cole in 1848 and other factors, Durand turned to the William Cullen Bryant poem, “Thanatopsis.” Durand’s Landscape—Scene from ‘Thanatopsis,’ an expansive allegory with a farmer and a funeral in the foreground illuminated by a sunrise, offers reassurance with its vision of nature’s paradisiacal beauty. The Christianized sublimity of this allegorical Durand painting reveals a hopeful vision for a heavenly paradise. This essay explores the significance of Durand’s 1850 painting in conjunction with Bryant’s “Thanatopsis,” a study Durand composed, Classical Landscape (Imaginary Landscape c. 1850), his 1855 Letters on Landscape Painting, as well as Durand’s 1862 repainting of the canvas.

Die Konstruktion von Natur – Central Park neu besichtigt | The Construction of Nature – Central Park Revisited

2005 ◽  
Vol 156 (8) ◽  
pp. 288-296
Author(s):  
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Hudson River School ◽  
The North ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Relationship

In the first half of the 19th century scientific philosophers in the United States, such as Emerson and Thoreau, began to pursue the relationship between man and nature. Painters from the Hudson River School discovered the rural spaces to the north of New York and began to celebrate the American landscape in their paintings. In many places at this time garden societies were founded, which generated widespread support for the creation of park enclosures While the first such were cemeteries with the character of parks, housing developments on the peripheries of towns were later set in generous park landscapes. However, the centres of the growing American cities also need green spaces and the so-called «park movement»reached a first high point with New York's Central Park. It was not only an experimental field for modern urban elements, but even today is a force of social cohesion.

For a Social History of the Hudson River School

American Art ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Wallach
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Hudson River School ◽  
History Of

The Hudson River School of Painters

1917 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bryson Burroughs
Keyword(s):  
Hudson River ◽  
Hudson River School
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