American Romanticism

Studies the work of the Hudson River School artists, the Lumiists and other mid-nineteenth century painters of the American landscape, setting the work of these artists into the broadest cultural context.

"The Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world. Painters, led by Thomas Cole, founded the Hudson River School, widely recognized as the first truly national style of art. As the century advanced and as landscape and history became increasingly intertwined in the national consciousness, an aesthetic identity took shape in the region through literature, art, memory, and folklore--even gardens and domestic architecture. In Sanctified Landscape."

"Explores the interaction of literature and music in the Atlantic world in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism."