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Painters of faith : the spiritual landscape in nineteenth-century America / Gene Edward Veith.

Title
Painters of faith : the spiritual landscape in nineteenth-century America / Gene Edward Veith.
Author
Veith, Gene Edward, Jr., 1951-
Publication
Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2001.

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Description
168 p. : col. ill.; 28 x 24 cm.
Summary
Explores the faith and the crucial role it played in the artistic creations of some of the participants in America's first major artistic movement.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Hudson River school of landscape painting
  • Landscape painting, American > 19th century
  • Spirituality in art
  • Protestantism in art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: the art of transcendence -- Images not graven: the Protestant aesthetic -- God's art: the allegory of nature -- The light of God's grace: the art of salvation -- The millennial age: the social gospel -- Shifting worldviews: the decline of the Hudson River School -- Conclusion: the legacy of the Hudson River School.
ISBN
0895262061 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001019399
OCLC
  • 46462662
  • SCSB-12651174
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library