Cultural Trends of the 1800s Fine Arts: • Increase in an educated population • Improved financial ability allowed the citizens of the USA to purchase & participate in this
Dec 28, 2015
Cultural Trends of the 1800s
Fine Arts: • Increase in an educated population• Improved financial ability allowed the citizens of the USA to purchase & participate in this
Excerpt from Civil Disobedience“That government is best which governs not at all…Witness the present Mexican War, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.”
—Henry David Thoreau
Questions to answer on the back of yesterday’s notes (#64):
1. Paraphrase this quote using words from today.2. Do you agree with this quote or not? Explain why or
why not? 3. What is civil disobedience?
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American storytellers Washington Irving: author
of Rip Van Winkle & Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1st American writer to enjoy fame in Europe as well as in the U.S.
James Fenimore Cooper: wrote The Last of the Mohicans & The Deerslayer
Edgar Allen Poe: mystery author, “The Raven”
Washington Irving
J. F. Cooper
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American Storytellers continued Herman Melville: wrote
Moby Dick in 1851 William Wells Brown:
published Clotel & The Escape, or A Leap for Freedom (play), nation’s 1st published black novelist & playwright
Nathaniel Hawthorne: author of The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain: wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Poetic voices Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow: favorite poet of Americans in mid-1800s, wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Walt Whitman: published Leaves of Grass
Emily Dickinson: published 7 poems while alive, wrote 1,700 “discovered” after her death
Whitman
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Emily Dickinson
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Transcendentalism American literary,
political and philosophical movement in the early 19th century
Examples: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
Critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity
Urged each individual to find their independent relation to the universe, particularly using solitude in nature
Art: American landscapes
George Catlin: traveled to the Far West, recorded the daily life of Indians through paintings
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American landscapes cont.
Hudson River School
1. Painted landscapes
2. Paintings reflect 3 themes of America in the 19th century: discovery, exploration & settlement
3. Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand
Kindred Spirits by Durand
The Oxbow by ColeBoth: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/hudson.html
American landscapes cont. Albert Bierstadt –
River Landscape
John James Audubon• Subjects: American wildlife, particularly birds
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-james-audubon/drawn-from-nature/106/
Music Slave spirituals & gospel
music “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
1. Written at the beginning of the Civil War
2. Used music from abolitionists song “John Brown’s Body”
3. Became popular Civil War song of the Union Army
4. Written by Julia Ward Howe “Dixie” – Lyrics by Daniel
Decateur Emmett
http://www.mcgath.com/freesongs.html --Lyrics
http://www.juliawardhowe.org/
http://www.usafband.af.mil/ensembles/BandEnsSongs.asp?ensemble=63 –Sound Recoding from the US Air Force Band