Landscape and Western Art

Name: Landscape and Western Art
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ISBN: 9780192842336

ISBN-10: 0192842331

ISBN-13: 9780192842336

Edition: 1999

Authors: Malcolm Andrews

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/3/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.37" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Land into Landscape



Subject or Setting?: Landscape and Renaissance Painting



Landscape as Amenity



Topography and the Beau Ideal



Framing the View



'Astonished beyond Expression': Landscape, the Sublime, and the Unpresentable



Landscape and Politics



Nature as Picture or Process?



Landscape into Land: Earth Works, Art, and Environment


Notes


List of Illustrations


Bibliographic Essay


Index