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in architecture and the arts. For the use of the term in literature, see American Renaissance (literature). For the white nationalist magazine, see American Renaissance (magazine).
In the history of American architecture and the arts, the
American Renaissance was the period
ca 1876 -
1914 characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and
Renaissance humanism. The American preoccupation with national identity (or
nationalism) in this period was expressed by
modernism and
technology as well as academic
classicism. It expressed its self-confidence in new technologies, such as the wire cables of the
Brooklyn Bridge in
New York . It found its cultural outlets in both
Prairie School houses and in
Beaux-Arts architecture and sculpture, in the "
City Beautiful" movement, and high-minded American interference in the internal affairs of other states. Americans felt that their civilization was uniquely the modern heir, and that it had come of age. Politically and economically, this era coincides with the
Gilded Age and the
New Imperialism.
The
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago,
1893 was a demonstration that impressed
Henry Adams, who was of the mind that in the future people would talk about
Hunt and
Richardson,
La Farge and
St Gaudens,
Burnham and
McKim and
Stanford White when their politicians and millionaires were quite forgotten. (
The Education of Henry Adams (External Link
)).
In the dome of the reading room at the new
Library of Congress,
Edwin Blashfield's murals were on the given theme,
The Progress of Civilization.
The exhibition
American Renaissance: 1876 - 1917 at the
Brooklyn Museum, 1979, encouraged the revival of interest in this movement.
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