Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings

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A major reexamination of the daddy of the Hudson River School on the subject of his European roots and travels

Thomas Cole (1801–1848), arguably the best American landscape artist of his generation, is gifted here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the foremost landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Cole traveled in Europe from 1829 to 1832. Thomas Cole’s Journey reexamines his seminal works of 1832–36—notably The Oxbow and Course of Empire—as a culminating response to his experiences of British art and society and of Italian landscape painting. These, combined with Cole’s passion for the American wilderness and his horror of the commercial revolution in Britain, led him to create works that provide a distinctive, even dissident, response to the industrial and political upward thrust of america and the ecological changes then underway. This groundbreaking book also discusses Cole’s influence on later artists, from Frederic Edwin Church to Ed Ruscha. 

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