Andrew Jackson Downing and the Tyranny of Taste
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7095374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David C Wall (Dewsbury and District Hospital, corresponding author), David Wall (0000-0001-5706-8151) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-203 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Nineteenth Century History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-4658 • E-ISSN: 1743-7903 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14664650701387920 |
| OpenAlex | W2063279195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
The following essay examines the published writing of Andrew Jackson Downing, the early nineteenth century architect and landscape gardener. As the most popular writer and commentator on house and landscape design of his time Downing profoundly shaped – both literally and metaphorically – the social and geographical environment of the emergent middle class. Relating his writing to the promotion of a shared nationalism as embodied in the landscape painting of the Hudson River School, the essay assesses Downing's drive to order by seeing it as a response to the general violence and disorder of the antebellum American city and demonstrates that the defining logic of Downing's project was the universalization of bourgeois taste, uniting the mutually legitimating discourses of privacy, consumption and self‐control
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Bourgeoisie · Consumption (sociology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Glory · Landscape painting · Literature · Nationalism · Painting · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Taste · Universalization · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Scottish History and National Identity
Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century America
Rudeness & civility
The politics and poetics of transgression
Iron cages
Crusoe's Footprints
Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region
Rudeness and Civility
Apostle of Taste
Toward a New Society
Toward a New Society
The Turbulent Era
The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900
Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790-1850
The Empire of the Eye
The American Dream Houses of Andrew Jackson Downing
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |