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Simon, Janice. "The Crayon 1855-1861: The Voice of Nature in Criticism, Poetry, and the Fine Arts," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 1990. Advisor: David C. Huntington
As the most substantive, pioneering, and enduring art periodical of the period, The Crayon was in effect a serial treatise on the pursuit of Unitarian “self-culture” and the realization of a New Heaven on a New Earth, with art and nature as the instruments. This interdisciplinary cultural study examines the periodical’s comprehensive idealist philosophy which married tranquility, order, and harmonic laws to plenitude, intuition, and deep feeling as the path to perfection. In its multifarious writings, The Crayon favored those classical qualities of nature associated with “luminism,” a landscape painting mode that would come to fruition only after The Crayon’s demise.
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