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

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

Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, Jennifer Raab

192 pages missing pub info (editions)

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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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