Alexander Nemerov on the Hudson River School, Part 1

Alexander Nemerov explores the Hudson River School painters and their contemporaries, focusing on what their art did and did not show of the teeming world around them. The forest serves as a metaphor for the unruly and wooded realms of lived experience to which art can only gesture. The lectures present a fundamentally new account of Thomas Cole (1801–1848), John Quidor (1801–1881), James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), and other artists and writers of that time. The first lecture, held on March 26, 2017, “Herodotus among the Trees,” considers the questions: How does life get into art? What were the definitions of life and of art in the United States in the 1830s? How might life and art have met and diverged there and then—for example, in two landscape paintings by Thomas Cole? The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established in 1949 to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the fine arts. Still haven’t subscribed to our YouTube channels?  National Gallery of Art ►► https://bit.ly/33fFsuD National Gallery of Art | Talks ►► https://bit.ly/3mfNeiO     ABOUT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART   The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.      More National Gallery of Art Content: Subscribe: https://bit.ly/33fFsuD Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eqoJv3 Twitter: https://bit.ly/2SvGOPF Instagram: https://bit.ly/3enn5dz #AWMellon #Museum #Art #NationalGalleryOfArt #AlexanderNemerov #HudsonRiverSchool #ThomasCole #JohnQuidor #JamesFenimoreCooper