From Humanism to Mysticism: The Birth of Ecology in the Western Arts from Wordsworth and Constable to John Cage and Earth Day

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From Humanism to Mysticism: The Birth of Ecology in the Western Arts from Wordsworth and Constable to John Cage and Earth Day Details

George Leonard traces a direct line back from Cage, Pop, and Conceptual Art through the Futurists to Whitman, Emerson, Ruskin, Carlyle, and Wordsworth, showing how the art of everyday objects, often thought an exclusively contemporary phenomenon, actually began as far back as 1800.