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British Romantic Landscape and the Search for the Sublime
Thursday, April 18 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | add to Google Calendar
This event will take place in person in the Yeager Community Room located on the lower level of the Library.
John Constable’s lyric naturalism conjures up the pre-industrial, rural society of his boyhood while J. M. W. Turner’s dramatic depictions of the fury of nature and of modern life in an industrial society are the two poles around which British Romantic landscape painting revolved during the early 19th century. Their attitudes towards nature and their bravura brushwork anticipated the work of the later French Impressionists. Join us for this lecture given by retired art history professor, Dennis Raverty.