- Artists, Movements & Ideas
The following essays address specific artists, movements, and ideas that influenced American poets, American writers, and the composition of American art song.
Harlem Renaissance
In the 1920's and 30's, the upper-Manhattan district of New York City called Harlem was the flourishing capital of African-American culture. Writers, musicians, artists, photographers, philosophers, and intellectuals created works that probed the black American heritage with a psychological intensity and a fierce pride.
Photo: Langston Hughes, photographed by Jack Delano, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Digital ID cph 3a43849 More
- The American Renaissance and Transcendentalism
- Artists of the American West: Albert Bierstadt & Frederic Remington
- General William Booth
- Mathew Brady
- Thomas Carlyle
- Concord, Massachusetts
- Edward S. Curtis
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Daniel Decatur Emmett and the American Minstrel
- Walker Evans
- Daniel Chester French
- Margaret Fuller
- Anne Gilchrist
- The Great Awakening and Revivalism in America
- The Alcotts
- Hudson River School
- Thomas Moore
- William Sidney Mount
- Norman Rockwell
- Romanticism
- The Shakers
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
- Henry David Thoreau
- Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
