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Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852
Academic journal article from Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA), Vol. 21, No. 3
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Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 18151852. David Schuyler. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Though early manifestations of genius in the fine and performing arts are so common as to obviate notice, it is rare that a cultural tastemaker makes a mark at a very young age. Those who speak with authority about higher culture tend to have both experience and authority behind their pronouncements. Yet, by the time Andrew Jackson Downing perished in a steamboat fire at the age of thirty-six, he had a national reputation as a landscape designer, an architect, a writer, and a leading proponent of scientific farming and agricultural education. Even granting the …
