9780521431538-0521431530-Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture)

Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture)

ISBN-13: 9780521431538
ISBN-10: 0521431530
Edition: First Edition
Author: David Bjelajac
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 253 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521431538
ISBN-10: 0521431530
Edition: First Edition
Author: David Bjelajac
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 253 pages

Summary

Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture) (ISBN-13: 9780521431538 and ISBN-10: 0521431530), written by authors David Bjelajac, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1997. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Individual Artists (Criticism, Arts History & Criticism, History, Freemasonry, Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts ) books. You can easily purchase or rent Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting (Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Individual Artists books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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Known as the American Titian because of his mastery of colour, Washington Allston was one of the pre-eminent American painters of the early nineteenth century. Attuned as he was to the occult mysteries of Freemasonry and vitalistic theories of chemical optics, contemporaries interpreted the painter's transformation of pigments into light as an alchemical process that resulted in spiritual gold. Through his paintings, Allston sought to facilitate the westward progress of the arts and letters to millennial fulfilment in America. Confronting anti-theatrical, anti-Masonic criticism, Allston's alchemical paintings of angels and angelic beings also represent chemical theories of colour and optics.
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