Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape - Rilegato

Wood, Christopher S.

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ISBN 10: 0226906019 ISBN 13: 9780226906010

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1993

Riassunto

In the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditional role as background to its new place as the focal point of a picture. His paintings, drawings, and etchings appeared almost without warning and mysteriously disappeared from view just as suddenly. In Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape,Christopher S. Wood shows how Altdorfer transformed what had been the mere setting for sacred and historical figures into a principal venue for stylish draftsmanship and idiosyncratic painterly effects. At the same time, his landscapes offered a densely textured interpretation of that quintessentially German locus—the forest interior.This revised and expanded second edition contains a new introduction, revised bibliography, and fifteen additional illustrations.“Excellent illustrations . . . [and] detailed exuberant comments leave the reader in no doubt about Altdorfer’s brilliance and originality.”—Anthony Grafton,New York Review of Books“A study that is bound to become a standard work.”—Independent on Sunday“Sumptuous.”—Daily Telegraph

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Christopher S. Wood is professor in the Department of History of Art at Yale University.

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In the early 1500s, almost without warning, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditionally supplementary role to the centre of the picture field. Christopher S. Wood shows how Altdorfer (c.1480-1538) transformed what had been the mere setting for sacred and historical figures into a principal venue for stylish draftsmanship and idiosyncratic painterly effects. In this English-language study of this artist, Wood investigates the historical conditions that supported the emergence of landscape as an independent genre in the time of Durer. He argues that Altdorfer's work is explicable neither in terms of the "descriptive" traditions of the Low Countries nor the "discursive" mode of contemporary Italian painting; rather, it registers a third possibility of deictic, or self-referential, practice. He also reveals that Altdorfer's forest scenes are far from doctrinally innocent: the forest that Altdorfer painted, drew, and etched is both a refuge from Christian rites and a mythical setting of idolatry. Because of Altdorfer's influence on the next generation of German and Netherlandish artists, his work forms a crucial link between Northern religious imagery and the modern development of landscape as a genre.

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• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0226906019
• ISBN 13: 9780226906010
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 324