Transcendentalists

What did they support?

• Faith over reason

• Women’s rights and suffrage

• Alternative living

• Worker’s rights

• Individuality

Where did the environmental art begin in the US AND EU?

• US began from 19th century Transcendentalist movement

• European from Romantic era from the 18th to the 19th century

Who were artists of the romantic period?

• William wordsworth

• William blake

• Percy Biersh Shelley

The Ruined Cottage

• Story by Worsworth about a British man who lives in poverty after a farming disaster increases the price of bread

Transcendentalists Inspired by?

• German transcentalists that inspired the European Romantic movement, Plato’s philosophy, and mysticism

Thoraeu and Ralph

• Friends

Ralph Emerson

• Believed in the over-soul, that all beings are connected

Thoreau

Prolific anti slavery

• Published Nature

• Believed that humans should trust themselves

• Published Walden

• Published Civil Disobedience

• Went to Waldon Lake lended to him by Emerson

• - Spent one day thinking about work, 6 days with nature

• - Spent 2 years there to write his book