The American Tradition in the ArtsHarcourt, Brace & World, 1968 - 492 pages |
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... Nature up to Nature's God . It was natural that in 1802 , when Alexander Wilson ( 1766- 1813 ) became teacher of the school at nearby Kingsessing , he should have visited the Bartrams , led by his lifelong passion for nature , and that ...
... Nature up to Nature's God . It was natural that in 1802 , when Alexander Wilson ( 1766- 1813 ) became teacher of the school at nearby Kingsessing , he should have visited the Bartrams , led by his lifelong passion for nature , and that ...
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... natural world , and de- voted an entire chapter in Kosmos to the subject of 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 ...
... natural world , and de- voted an entire chapter in Kosmos to the subject of 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 ...
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... nature , of man as a part of nature yet apart from it , of individual man as solitary as he can be only when faced with the immensity of the wilderness of the New World or with the even greater immensity of the endless sea . It appears ...
... nature , of man as a part of nature yet apart from it , of individual man as solitary as he can be only when faced with the immensity of the wilderness of the New World or with the even greater immensity of the endless sea . It appears ...
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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