Landscape and Western Art - Brossura

Andrews, Malcolm

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192842331 ISBN 13: 9780192842336

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 1999

Riassunto

What is landscape? How does it differ from 'land'? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is 'nature'? Is it everything that isn't art, or artefact? This book explores many fascinating issues raised by the great range of ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance. Using a thematic structure many issues are examined, for instance: landscape as a cultural construct; the relationship between landscape as accessory or backdrop and landscape as the chief subject; landscape as constituted by various practices of framing; the sublime and ideas of indeterminacy; landscape art as picturesque or as exploration of living processes. These issues are raised and explored in connection with Western cultural movements, and within a full international and historical context. Many forms of landscape art are included: painting, gardening, panorama, poetry, photography, and art. The book is designed to both take stock of recent interdisciplinary debates and act as a stimulus to rethinking our assumptions about landscape.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Malcolm Andrews is Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of Dickens on England and the English, The Search for the Picturesque, and Dickens and the Grown-up Child. He has edited a three-volume anthology, The Picturesque: Sources and Documents and is currently editor of the journal The Dickensian.

Contenuti:

• 1: Introduction.: Land into Landscape
• 2: Landscape and Terza Natura
• 3: Subject or Setting? Landscape in C15 and C16 Painting
• 4: Topography and the Beau Ideal
• 5: Framing the View
• 6: The Sublime
• 7: Political Landscape
• 8: Nature as Picture or Process?
• 9: Landscape and the Art Gallery
• Notes; List of Illustrations; Bibliographic Essay; Timeline; Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192842331
• ISBN 13: 9780192842336
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256