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What was "the search for the sublime?"
Landscapes evoking heavy emotion. Panoramic portrayals in paintings such as epic battlefields, mountain vistas. The sublime was meant to challenge and push oneself as a person.
What effect did newly created public parks have for the working class in the 19th - 20th centuries?
to relieve the physical and emotional stresses of life in the industrialized city
Parc des Buttes Chaumont (ca. 1867) is an example of what concept?
picturesque urbanism
What class of people did many impressionism painters favor to paint?
bourgeois
Who painted "the Heart of the Andes?"
Frederic Church
In the 19th century, what site included sham ruins, eclectic features, "fake features", and a false volcano?
Worlitz
What is the term for the dramatic transformation of cities such as London to economic and industrial forces in the 19th - 20th centuries?
industrialization
When century was the French Revolution?
late 18th
Who was the Prefect of the Seine?
Baron Georges Eugene von Haussmann
Define colonialism.
European exploration, conquest, and settlement of the New World (the Americas).
Define the word "kitsch"
“Kitsch” is art or design characterized by sentimental, often pretentious bad taste…“
How was landscape and green space seen in industrialized cities?
As promoting the health, safety and welfare of the population.
Was the French Revolution more peaceful, like England, or more violent?
What did Baron Haussmann do in Paris?
Manage the whole scale reconstruction of Paris for Napoleon III.
Who led the "Hudson River School" of painters in the United States?
Thomas Cole
In what centuries was "eclectic exoticism" popular?
18th - 19th
What year was a bill introduced in the British Parliament to offer environmental belief to the working poor?
1832
When did the "restoration" end in France?
1830
Why was Paris historically more dense in population than London?
When was the Boston Public Garden built?
1857
Define 18th century pleasure gardens.
suburban establishments that catered to popular taste and to the growing capacity of the middle class for consumption
What is rus in urbe?
Insertion of the countryside into the city
Why were medieval, city defensive walls taken down during industrialization of cities?
The cities were expanding to a point that the walls were "holding in" the expansion, creating too dense areas of people.
When did the metro begin (the subway) in Paris?
1900
Who painted "the Oxbow"?
Thomas Church