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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Raab, Jennifer
Titre(s) : Frederic Church [Texte imprimé] : the art and science of detail / Jennifer Raab
Publication : New Haven ; London : Yale university press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI, 236 p.) : ill. en noir et en coul., jaquette ill. en coul. ; 28 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 222-228. Index
A reconsideration of Church's works offering a sustained examination of the aesthetics
of detail that fundamentally shaped 19th-century American landscape painting ; "Frederic
Church (1826-1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th
century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and
the Middle East. These paintings were unsurpassed in their attention to detail, yet
the significance of this pictorial approach has remained largely unexplored. In this
important reconsideration of Church's works, Jennifer Raab offers the first sustained
examination of the aesthetics of detail that fundamentally shaped 19th-century American
landscape painting. Moving between historical context and close readings of famous
canvases--including Niagara, The Heart of the Andes, and The Icebergs--Raab argues
that Church's art challenged an earlier model of painting based on symbolic unity,
revealing a representation of nature with surprising connections to scientific discourses
of the time. The book traces Church's movement away from working in oil on canvas
to shaping the physical landscape of Olana, his self-designed estate on the Hudson
River, a move that allowed the artist to rethink scale and process while also engaging
with pressing ecological questions. Beautifully illustrated with dramatic spreads
and striking details of Church's works, Frederic Church: The Art and Science of Detail
offers a profoundly new understanding of this canonical artist."
Sujet(s) : Church, Frederick Edwin (1826-1900)
Indice(s) Dewey :
759.13 (23e éd.) = Peinture - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0300208375. - ISBN 9780300208375 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44446411r
Notice n° :
FRBNF44446411
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