Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance by Gillian Forrester, Jennifer Raab, Tim Barringer

Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance

Gillian Forrester, Jennifer Raab, Tim Barringer

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Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. British artists includ...

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