{"product_id":"the-spirit-and-the-vision-the-influence-of-christian-romanticism-on-the-development-of-19th-century-american-art-9781555409753","title":"The Spirit and the Vision: The Influence of Christian Romanticism on the Development of 19th-Century American Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Diane Apostolos-Cappadona\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Religious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Romanticism was a response to social changes within nineteenth-century American culture, including women's literacy, spiritual domesticity, and the idealization of childhood. This book examines the work of three artists of the first American landscape tradition -- Washington Alston, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Edwin Church -- and two clergymen -- Horace Bushnell and Henry Ward Beecher. It assesses their understanding of the artist as a social and moral teacher, the didactic role of art in society more generally, and a God who acts in history. The author finds that the art of Allston, Cole, and Church expressed and served the dominant middle-class religious ideology of the time -- Christian Romanticism. This distinguishes their work from more elitist and regional work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46893330170007,"sku":"9781555409753","price":4862.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781555409753.webp?v=1770315447","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-spirit-and-the-vision-the-influence-of-christian-romanticism-on-the-development-of-19th-century-american-art-9781555409753","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}