{"product_id":"9781555409753","title":"The Spirit and the Vision: The Influence of Christian Romanticism on the Development of 19th-Century American Art","description":"\u003cbr\u003eChristian Romanticism was a response to social changes within nineteenth-century American culture, including women's literacy, spiritual domesticity, and the idealization of childhood. This book examines the work of three artists of the first American landscape tradition -- Washington Alston, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Edwin Church -- and two clergymen -- Horace Bushnell and Henry Ward Beecher. It assesses their understanding of the artist as a social and moral teacher, the didactic role of art in society more generally, and a God who acts in history. The author finds that the art of Allston, Cole, and Church expressed and served the dominant middle-class religious ideology of the time -- Christian Romanticism. This distinguishes their work from more elitist and regional work.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053043761392,"sku":"9781555409753","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555409753_p0.jpg?v=1763753055","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555409753","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}