ebooks Mixtape by Adam Gaines in Arts-Photography

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Late in the nineteenth century; many Americans were troubled by the theories of Charles Darwin; which contradicted both traditional Christian teachings and the idea of human supremacy over nature; and by an influx of foreign immigrants; who challenged the supremacy of the old Anglo-Saxon elite. In response; many people drew comfort from the theories of philosopher Herbert Spencer; who held that human society inevitably develops towards higher and more spiritual forms.In this illuminating study; Kathleen Pyne explores how Spencers theories influenced a generation of American artists. She shows how the painters of the 1880s and 1890s; particularly John La Farge; James McNeill Whistler; Thomas Dewing and the Boston school; and the impressionist painters of the Ten; developed an art dedicated to social refinement and spiritual ideals and to defending the Anglo-Saxon elite of which they were members. This linking of visual culture to the problematic conditions of American life radically reinterprets the most important trends in late nineteenth-century American painting.