The art idea
Subtitle: sculpture, painting and architecture in America
By: James Jackson Jarves
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin
Published: 1864
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Art; History; American Art
Table of contents: title: Life a self-enlarging sphere --; title: Art queries --; title: The importance of art as a teacher --; title: Art addresses every mind --; title: Primary relation of art to religion --; title: Origin of mythology --; title: Christian art-motive --; title: The comparison of classical and Christian art continued --; title: Architecture, the culmination of art, is to man what nature is to God --; title: Analogy between nature and architecture, as the respectivecreations of God and man --; title: Classical and Christian domestic art compared --; title: What Protestantism offers to art --; title: An inquiry into the art-conditions and prospects of America --; title: Painting and the early painters of America --; title: The new school of American painting contrasted with the old --; title: The American school of sculpture --; title: Review of American architecture, past and present --; title: The art idea is the beautifier of civilization --; title: Art-institutions and art-education in Europe and America --; title: Review of the art-phase of civilization, as derived from Greece and Judea.