Forging An American Culture 1790-1860 Why Study Culture? u Art and literature are the ultimate expression of a nation’s identity u They are the product.

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Forging An American Culture

Why Study Culture? u Art and literature are the ultimate expression of a nation’s identity u They are the product of the society’s collective experience u Culture can be used to underscore and reinforce themes taught in class

Art: Portraiture Gilbert Stuart

Art: Portraiture George Catlin

Art: Portraiture

Art: Landscape

Albert Bierstadt

Art: Landscape Thomas Cole

Art: Landscape

Art: Man in Nature George Caleb Bingham

Art: Man in Nature

Common Man

Art: Man in Nature

Nature Studies John Audubon

Art: Heroism & Patriotism

Neoclassicism

Neogothic

Literature: Themes uPuIuCuMuIuNuEuPuIuCuMuIuNuE

u Past u Imagination u Common Man & Democracy u Mystery & Supernatural u Individualism u Nature (Love of Nature & its Wisdom) u Emotion over Reason

Literature: Writers u Herman Melville: Moby Dick u Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter u James Fennimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales u Henry David Thoreau: Walden u Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson u Poetry of William Cullen Bryant u Stories of Edgar Allan Poe & Washington Irving

American Music u No major orchestral composers u Few cities had their own symphonies or large performances u Orchestral music reflected romantic elements u Most popular music focused on common man themes

American Music Buffalo Gals I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking And he knees was a-knockin' and her shoes was a'rockin' I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking And we danced by the light of the moon CHORUS: Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight Come out tonight come out tonight Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight And we'll dance by the light of the moon

Stephen Collins Foster Pioneer in American Music One of the first to write popular music with wide appeal Oh Susanna Camptown Races The Old Folks at Home (state song of Florida)

Selected Bibliography  Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. New York: Alfred E. Knopf,  Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM). Macmillan Digital USA,  

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