Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America by Kathleen Pyne

Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Kathleen Pyne

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Late in the nineteenth century, many Americans were troubled by the theories of Charles Darwin, which contradicted both traditional Christian teachings and the idea of human supremacy over nature, and by an influx of foreign immigrants, who challe...

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