Malcolm Andrews (Professor of Victorian and Profess Visual Studies

Landscape and Western Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is landscape? How does it differ from "land"? This book explores issues raised by the great range of ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance. Topics include landscape as cultural construct and landscape art as picturesque. Context is considered throughout.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford History of Art
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 169mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9780192842336
• ISBN-10: 0192842331
• Artikelnr.: 21951714

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction.: Land into Landscape
2: Subject or Setting? Landscape and Renaissance Painting
3: Landscape as Amenity
4: Topography and the Beau Ideal
5: Framing the View
6: 'Astonished beyond Expression':Landscape, the Sublime, and the Unrepresentable
7: Landscape and Politics
8: Nature as Picture or Process?
9: Landscape into Land: Earth Works, Art, and Environment
Notes; List of Illustrations; Bibliographic Essay; Timeline; Index