Knights of the Brush
Subtitle: The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press
Published: December 25, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9781555951801
Subjects: Individual artists; Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes; Painting & paintings; Hudson River school of landsca; Criticism; Art & Art Instruction; Values; Art; United States; Hudson River school of landscape painting; American - General; Landscape; Art / Painting; General; History
Description: "This work of cultural criticism analyzes the masterpieces of the Hudson River School, America's golden age of landscape painting that flourished from almost 1825 to 1860. Iconic works by Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Asher Brown Durand, and others are examined in relation to the religious, moral, and aesthetic sensibility that underlies their work. For these painters there was a moral purpose in being an artist; art was a sacred obligation.

Perhaps not since the Middle Ages had a school of art infused such religious certitude into works of art."--BOOK JACKET.