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The art idea : sculpture, painting and architecture in America James Jackson Jarves.
- Title
- The art idea : sculpture, painting and architecture in America James Jackson Jarves.
- Author
- Jarves, James Jackson, 1818-1888
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1864.
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- Description
- 381 p.; 18 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Life a self-enlarging sphere -- Art queries -- The importance of art as a teacher -- Art addresses every mind -- Primary relation of art to religion -- Origin of mythology -- Christian art-motive -- The comparison of classical and Christian art continued -- Architecture, the culmination of art, is to man what nature is to God -- Analogy between nature and architecture, as the respectivecreations of God and man -- Classical and Christian domestic art compared -- What Protestantism offers to art -- An inquiry into the art-conditions and prospects of America -- Painting and the early painters of America -- The new school of American painting contrasted with the old -- The American school of sculpture -- Review of American architecture, past and present -- The art idea is the beautifier of civilization -- Art-institutions and art-education in Europe and America -- Review of the art-phase of civilization, as derived from Greece and Judea.
- OCLC
- 7451942
- SCSB-10694912
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library