Led by Dennis Raverty, Ph.D. This lecture examines how painters of the Hudson River School were influenced by contemporaneous understandings of the relationship between God, Mankind & Nature–the American wilderness they painted was viewed by them romantically as a new, sublime, Garden of Eden.
Raverty is an art historian with a specialization in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art. He is the author of Struggle over the Modern and has hard articles and essays in Art in America, Art Journal, Prospects, and Art Criticism, as well as in other scholarly journals. He has recently contributed entries for the forthcoming Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.
New York