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Title: Knights of the Brush: The Hudson River School and the Moral Landscape by James F. Cooper, Frederick Turner ISBN: 1-55595-180-5 Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: The conservative agenda gets in the way!
Comment: I purchased this book after enjoying an exhibit of Hudson River School paintings. While the premise of the book is an interesting one, I couldn't get past the conservative politics! It was Newt Gingrich's quote & the mention of Lynne Cheney as a harbinger of moral change that pushed me over the edge. I was hoping to gain a further appreciation of the genre, but found myself too iritated by the modern day political commentary to keep reading. If you have BOTH an appreciation of the school & a conservative political outlook--this is probably the book for you. However, if you find conservative definitions of morality and cultural standards off-putting, don't bother with this one!
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspirational
Comment: Anyone alarmed by the loss of cultural standards in America today will find this book fascinating. Mr. Cooper clearly demonstrates the relationship between culture and art. We are reminded of a time in our nations youth when the arts served to lift up and inspire, when truth, virtue and beauty were not doubted but sought after because they represented the very best of what we could be. Today much of our art points in the opposite direction, not celebrating what we aspire to be but pointing out the worst of what we are. As an artist in todays culture I can attest to the accuracy of Mr.Coopers observations concerning the role modern art has played in our cultural decline.I can also confirm the great hunger for art that lifts the spirit and inspires our hopes and dreams. I highly recommend this book for its insight into the importance of our creative endeavors and how we direct them. I hope it serves as an inspiration to all artists seeking to better the world through their gifts.
Rating: 3
Summary: It's a different Cooper!
Comment: "Knights of the Brush" is a fascinating book on the Hudson River School landscape painters, but it is not (repeat not) by the novelist James Fenimore Cooper! The author, a distinguished art historian, is James F. Cooper and unlike the novelist is very much alive! That said, I find the book a little strange. Mr. Cooper analyses and discusses a wide range of Hudson River landscape paintings by painters such as Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, and Jasper Cropsey -- stressing their moral and religious intent and content in a way that should increase appreciation of their merit. The book is filled with attractive color reproductions of their works. But this is coupled with a sometimes repetitious jeremiad against current "post-modern" culture and ethics and apparently everything else to do with contemporary American culture. Somehow the art history and appreciation and the political pamphlet do not live happily with each other. Readers and art lovers can enjoy and appreciate "Knights of the Brush," and the author's passion for art, without necessarily accepting all his passion for turning back the cultural clock.
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Title: Painters of Faith by Gene Veith, Gene Edward, Jr. Veith, James F. Cooper ISBN: 0895262061 Publisher: Gateway Editions Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School by John Driscoll ISBN: 0801434890 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: This Tranquil Land: Hudson River Paintings from the Hersen Collection by William Kloss, Richard V. West ISBN: 0962460214 Publisher: Frye Art Museum Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880 by Andrew Wilton, Tim Barringer, Stephen Deuchar ISBN: 0691096708 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Hudson River School: American Landscape Artists (American Art) by Bert D. Yaeger ISBN: 1880908492 Publisher: Todtri Productions Ltd Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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