HOA 106 1nd Edition Lecture 12 Outline of Last Lecture II Subject Matter Continued a Madness b Women c Romantic Feminine Ideal d Escape i Nature as bucolic escape ii Nature as sublime Outline of Current Lecture III Subject matter Continued a Escape i Nature as sublime ii Nature vs Civilization iii Fascination with Native Americans b Exoticism Escape to the East c Historicism Escape to the Past Current Lecture Lecture 3 3 15 Nature as sublime Friedrich Monk by the Sea o Depicts how powerful nature is how small people are Friedrich Niagara Albert Bierstadt Landers Peak Nature vs Civilization Turner Rain Steam and Speed o Clash of nature and technology steam engine Hudson River School These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o o o Thomas Cole the Oxbow An oxbow is when a river cuts around land Artist can be seen in the picture Depiction of an actual place on the Hudson river Cole the Course of Empire Series The same mountain is depicted in every picture Savage State reference to indigenous native americans Arcadian State people are getting along taming nature nature is calmer as well Stonehenge is seen in the background Culmination of Empire the word empire has to do w the course of civilization there is no nature the mountain is thrust to the side and civilization is prevalent Destruction of Empire modern controversial idea of the 19th century that nature has a cycle Death and obliteration The worst thing humans can do is create warfare Aftermath peace again devastated land Fascination with Native Americas as natural men unspoiled by civilization George Catlin White Cloud Head Chief of the Iowas Red face green handprint Dignified anthropological presentation Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Song of Hiawatha o Breaks w traditional poetic forms and meters uses native American speech patterns Emmanuel Fremiet Gorilla and Woman Evolutionary theory of survival of the fittest White supremacy Nature can challenge anything Exoticism Escape to the East Invention of the steam engine allows travel to Eastern world o Delacroix Death of Sardanapalus o Josh Nash the Brighton Pavilion Similar to Taj Mahal Cast iron Brightly decorated inside about fun pleasure and imagination o Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres the Turkish Bath o Charles Cordier African Venus sculpture Representation of African woman Presents her beauty without any sense of racial inequality An actual representation of costume and jewelry Historicism Escape to the Past 19th century reviewed earlier styles Dutch baroque the rococo The most significant revival was the gothic which emphasized melancholy and remoteness of medieval times o o Friedrich Abbey in the Oak Forest Some gothic churches were destroyed Ruins of gothic church Horace Walpole Strawberry Hill Charles Barry British House of Parliament o In England gothic revival was considered a nationalistic statement o Massive complex replaced the old buildings that burned in 1834