The American Tradition in the ArtsHarcourt, Brace & World, 1968 - 492 pages |
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... landscape design , in a direct line of descent from Humphrey Repton . That eighteenth - century Englishman first composed landscape in terms of developing and enhancing its natural appearance so successfully and over such vast tracts of ...
... landscape design , in a direct line of descent from Humphrey Repton . That eighteenth - century Englishman first composed landscape in terms of developing and enhancing its natural appearance so successfully and over such vast tracts of ...
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... landscape painting professionally in 1815 . He increasingly turned to scenes of rural life in New England , which were unique in their day and establish him as the leader in another aspect of the rediscovery of America - the recognition ...
... landscape painting professionally in 1815 . He increasingly turned to scenes of rural life in New England , which were unique in their day and establish him as the leader in another aspect of the rediscovery of America - the recognition ...
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... landscape painting as a means of understanding nature . He could not help but wonder that if painters had been able to create important works of art based upon the more austere landscape of Europe , how much wider would be the horizons ...
... landscape painting as a means of understanding nature . He could not help but wonder that if painters had been able to create important works of art based upon the more austere landscape of Europe , how much wider would be the horizons ...
Contents
Spain and France in the New World | 4 |
The Seventeenth Century | 11 |
The Tradition and the Arts of the Puritans | 15 |
Copyright | |
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