ARTH 300 Midterm: Sublime and Picturesque & American landscape
Document Summary
Nationalism and american landscape: settlement, the picturesque and the. Landscape painting in the us, which came into being from a revolution. Initially no state or state religion to demand history or religious painting. Local landscape; upriver on the hudson; lone native american figure. Cole was one of the practitioners who were interested in local landscapes that carry significant values; subject: upriver on the hudson, which had become a summer place for wealthy new yorkers. Had to alter the reality of kaaterskill mountains as untouched but actually tourist resort. Native american figure takes us back to an earlier era, the real untouched land; 1826, native removal act -- either give up your status, or move west of missouri. Very carefully planned and erased undesirable qualities of kaaterskill falls; god driven. But facts are native americans never stopped fighting back. Major factors affecting the emergence of landscape: new individualism; Economic growth, jacksonian era, early 19th century, huge expansionist period.
