"...In the wilderness, i find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages..." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson // 

"We are kindred with nature." -- Professor Bryan J. Wolf // 

Professor Bryan J. Wolf is a visiting professor of American Studies at Yale University and Jones Professor in American Art and Culture, Emeritus, at Stanford University. In the summer, Professor Wolf teaches a course at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English called "Humbugs and Visionaries: American Artists and Writers before the Civil War." His scholarly expertise combines art history, American literature, visual culture, and early American history. He is a graduate of Rice University and Yale Divinity School and received both his MA and PhD from Yale University. 

On Episode #93 of the Path to Follow Podcast, Jake and Professor Wolf discuss "humbugs" and "visionaries," Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature" (1836) and the transcendentalism movement, Thomas Cole's "The Oxbow,"  Asher B. Durand's "Kindred Spirits" (1849), Richard Caton Woodville's "War News from Mexico" (1948), the power of learning art in the classroom, and Bryan's book recommendation, 'Maus' (1980) by Art Spiegelman. // 

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Many thanks to Cesare Ciccanti for the production of this podcast. //