Landscape painting ([In the history of art])

Landscape painting ([In the history of art]) image
ISBN-10:

0831754141

ISBN-13:

9780831754143

Author(s): JEFFARES, BO
Edition: First American Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1979
Publisher: Mayflower Books
Format: Paperback, 80 pages
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Description:

Contemplate the Immensity
A survey of panorama paintings

Enigmatic and ambiguous in its role as both setting and subject, the landscape has been one of the most important genres in painting for centuries. This dedicated survey spans from the late Middle Ages to modern times to bring the evolution of the landscape genre to life through its most critical works, executed by groundbreaking artists as diverse as Titian and Warhol.

As a form, landscapes represent the topography of the natural world as much as our own; reflecting the diversity of earth’s vistas, but also keen indications of developments in representational aesthetics, religious and political history, notions of the sublime and the romantic, as well as the arrival of modernity and the vast changes wrought on the environment by industrialization and urbanization.

Opening this insightful volume is an introductory essay offering a meticulous overview of the genre and its most crucial developments. Luscious double page spreads on each of the 34 featured artworks include a crisp painting reproduction and an extensive art historical analysis on the masters of the form - including such greats as Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel, El Greco, John Constable, Claude Monet, and David Hockney.

“Ground is to the landscape painter what the naked human body is to the historical.”
— John Ruskin

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