Petra Halkes

Aspiring to the Landscape

On Painting and the Subject of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

It is the tension between modern and postmodern interpretations of the subject of nature that makes the theory and the artwork discussed in Aspiring to the Landscape so important to contemporary Canadian culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780802038944
• ISBN-10: 0802038948
• Artikelnr.: 21303231

Autorenporträt

By Petra Halkes

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Longing for the Impossible Place: Wanda Koop’s Paintings for Dimly
Lit Rooms and Paintings for Brightly Lit Rooms
2. The Allegorical Impulse in Stephen Hutchings’s Plants, Bushes, and
Hedges
3. Speaking the Wild: The Apophatic Representation of Nature in Susan
Feindel’s Paintings
4. Cosmoville: The Unmanageable Surfaces of Eleanor Bond’s Rotterdam
Paintings
Conclusion (or Beginning): Opening Up the Conversation
Appendix: Artists’ Biographies
Notes
Bibliography
Index