Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Torsten Gunnarsson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300070411

This study identifies and analyzes the different types of landscape painting that dominated the Scandinavian countries in the 19th century. The author shows how the wilderness became a symbol of Nordic strength, as well as a counter-image to industrialization and European urban culture.

Science and the Perception of Nature

Science and the Perception of Nature
Author: Charlotte Klonk
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300069501

Charlotte Klonk's deeply researched accounts of the complex and often ambiguous interactions that took place between artists and scientists challenge simplistic accounts of developments in art as mere by-products of scientific progress as well as reductive socio-economic interpretations. For Klonk, the common thread running through the changes in both art and science is the emergence of a new phenomenalist conception of experience around the turn of the century. Phenomenalism involved a commitment to the scrupulous observation of particular phenomena, without making prior assumptions about meaning or underlying causes, and this ideal was common to both artists and scientists. In this way, Klonk argues, the period represents a brief moment of balance before the concerns of science and art split apart into objectivity and subjectivity, respectively.

Glorious Nature

Glorious Nature
Author: Katharine Baetjer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This aptly named volume brings together 91 masterpieces in oil and watercolor by 44 artists, the zenith of England's sublime landscape tradition. These beautiful, innovative works represent the most talented artists of the genre -- including Gainsborough, Wright of Derby, Turner, and Constable.

Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Author: Michael Charlesworth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 135156109X

A study of the ways landscape was perceived in nineteenth-century Britain and France, this book draws on evidence from poetry, landscape gardens, spectacular public entertainments, novels and scientific works as well as paintings in order to develop its basic premise that landscape and the processes of perceiving it cannot be separated. Vision embraces panoramic seeing from high places, but also the seeing of ghosts and spectres when madness and hallucination impinge upon landscape. The rise of geology and the spread of empires upset the existing comfortable orders of comprehension of landscape. Reverie and imagination produced powerful interpretive actions, while landscape in French culture proved central to the rejection of conservative classicism in favour of perceptual questioning of experience. The experience of subjectivity proved central to the perception of landscape while the visual culture of landscape became of paramount importance to modernity during the period in question.

Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between

Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between
Author: Richard Read
Publisher: Terra Foundation for the Arts
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Landscape painting, American
ISBN: 9780932171696

"This publication arose from an inspired partnership between the Terra Foundation, The University of Western Australia, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the University of Melbourne's Ian Potter Museum of Art. Together, the partners co-organized and presented the Terra Collection Initiative exhibition Continental shift: Nineteenth Century American and Australian Landscape Painting (shown in Melbourne as Not as the Songs of Other Land s: 19th Century American and Australian Landscape Painting)."--Page 7.

American Sublime

American Sublime
Author: Andrew Wilton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780691096704

Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition, a tribute to U.S. landscape painting features more than one hundred works by the Hudson River School artists, complemented by three gatefolds, artist biographies, and essays on American landscape painting in the context of international traditions and national identity. (Fine Arts)

Nineteenth Century British Painting

Nineteenth Century British Painting
Author: Luke Herrmann
Publisher: Giles de La Mare
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This illuminating volume explores a century in British painting that produced an enormous variety of work, ranging from the beginnings of Romanticism in the late 18th century to the British adoption of impressionism in the late 19th century. Dividing this prolific period into nine sections, the work of each artist is discussed, analyzed, and presented in biographical context. With longer sections devoted to such maior figures as Lawrence, Turner, Constable, Rossetti, Leighton, and Whistler, the artists are placed in the framework of their historical, social, and economic backgrounds. The majority of the paintings and drawings that are examined are handsomely reproduced in more than 300 plates, making this an excellent choice for students, connoisseurs, and collectors as well as anyone interested in British art. Among Luke Herrmann's books is "J.M.W. Turner Watercolours and Drawings."