Nine Letters On Landscape Painting

Author : Carl Gustav Carus
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892366743

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Nine Letters on Landscape Painting by Carl Gustav Carus Pdf

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science. Carus was inspired by and had contacts with the greatest German intellectuals of his day. Carus prefaced his work with a letter from his correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was his primary mentor in both science and art. His writings also reflect, however, the influence of the German natural philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, especially Schelling's notion of a world soul, and the writings of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Carus played a role in the revolution in landscape painting taking place in Saxony around Caspar David Friedrich. The first edition appears here in English for the first time.

Author : Carl Gustav Carus
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892366745

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Nine Letters on Landscape Painting by Carl Gustav Carus Pdf

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science. Carus was inspired by and had contacts with the greatest German intellectuals of his day. Carus prefaced his work with a letter from his correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was his primary mentor in both science and art. His writings also reflect, however, the influence of the German natural philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, especially Schelling's notion of a world soul, and the writings of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Carus played a role in the revolution in landscape painting taking place in Saxony around Caspar David Friedrich. The first edition appears here in English for the first time.

Author : Carl Gustav Carus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1195964714

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Nine Letters on Landscape Painting by Carl Gustav Carus Pdf

Author : Joshua C. Taylor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520048881

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Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art by Joshua C. Taylor Pdf

This unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction of nineteenth-century artists as diverse as Tommaso Minardi and Georges Seurat. It is significant that during the nineteenth century most artists felt compelled to found their artistic practice on a consciously established premise.

Author : Asher Brown Durand,Barbara Dayer Gallati
Publisher : Fundacion Juan March
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Landscape painting, American
ISBN : 8470755846

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Letters on Landscape Painting, 1855 by Asher Brown Durand,Barbara Dayer Gallati Pdf

Semi-facsimile and bilingual edition (English and Spanish) of the nine Letters on Landscape Painting, published by Durand in 1855 in The Crayon (the first periodical publication devoted to fine arts in America), in which he picked up his poetic and praxis art, combining the most spiritualized reflections with the most practical pictorial tips.

Author : Nina Amstutz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300246162

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Caspar David Friedrich by Nina Amstutz Pdf

A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and philosophy Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) came of age alongside a German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an organic and interconnected whole. The naturalists in his circle believed that observations about the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms could lead to conclusions about human life. Many of Friedrich’s often-overlooked later paintings reflect his engagement with these philosophical ideas through a focus on isolated shrubs, trees, and rocks. Others revisit earlier compositions or iconographic motifs but subtly metamorphose the previously distinct human figures into the natural landscape. In this revelatory book, Nina Amstutz combines fresh visual analysis with broad interdisciplinary research to investigate the intersection of landscape painting, self-exploration, and the life sciences in Friedrich’s mature work. Drawing connections between the artist’s anthropomorphic landscape forms and contemporary discussions of biology, anatomy, morphology, death, and decomposition, Amstutz brings Friedrich’s work into the larger discourse surrounding art, nature, and life in the 19th century.

Author : Elizabeth Basye Gilmore Holt,Elizabeth Gilmore Holt
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300033588

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From the Classicists to the Impressionists by Elizabeth Basye Gilmore Holt,Elizabeth Gilmore Holt Pdf

The nineteenth-century historian and artist shared the same aim, to present the unsystematic diversity of peoples, cultures, customs, and myths in a process of evolutionary transformation, that was to be comprehended by feeling.

Author : Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031525315

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The Moonlight Doctor by Jaan Valsiner Pdf

Author : Adrian Daub,Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781571139573

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Goethe Yearbook 23 by Adrian Daub,Elisabeth Krimmer Pdf

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and the Goethezeit, featuring in this volume a special section on Goethe and visual culture.

Author : Sean Moore Ireton,Caroline Schaumann
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135025

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Heights of Reflection by Sean Moore Ireton,Caroline Schaumann Pdf

Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond their geographical-geological significance, mountains affect the topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction, of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfillment, of philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction with mountains is a distinctly modern development, one that began with the empowerment of the individual in the wake of Enlightenment rationalism and Romantic subjectivity. These essays by European and North American scholars examine the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans and the alpineenvironment. The contributors consider mountains not as mere symbolic tropes or literary metaphors, but as constituting a tangible reality that informs the experiences and ideas of writers, naturalists, philosophers, filmmakers, and composers. Overall, this volume seeks to provide multiple answers to questions regarding the cultural significance of mountains as well as the physical practice of climbing them. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Olaf Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel, Christof Hamann, Harald Höbusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Höyng, Sean Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan, Johannes Türk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms. SEAN IRETON is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri. CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor of German Studies at Emory University.

Author : Ladislav Kesner
Publisher : Pierot s.r.o
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788073534851

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Model by Ladislav Kesner Pdf

Author : Mark Cheetham
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271081427

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Landscape into Eco Art by Mark Cheetham Pdf

Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art, Mark Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of landscape painting. Through eight thematic case studies that illuminate what eco art means in practice, reception, and history, Cheetham places the form in a longer and broader art-historical context. He considers a wide range of media—from painting, sculpture, and photography to artists’ films, video, sound work, animation, and installation—and analyzes the work of internationally prominent artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Nancy Holt, Mark Dion, and Robert Smithson. In doing so, Cheetham reveals eco art to be a dynamic extension of a long tradition of landscape depiction in the West that boldly enters into today’s debates on climate science, government policy, and our collective and individual responsibility to the planet. An ambitious intervention into eco-criticism and the environmental humanities, this volume provides original ways to understand the issues and practices of eco art in the Anthropocene. Art historians, humanities scholars, and lay readers interested in contemporary art and the environment will find Cheetham’s work valuable and invigorating.

Author : Sabine Rewald,Kasper Monrad
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Moon
ISBN : 9781588390042

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Caspar David Friedrich by Sabine Rewald,Kasper Monrad Pdf

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), a major figure in the German Romantic movement, painted sublime works representing nature at its most melancholic and desolate. One of his most famous motifs was that of two intimate figures, seen from behind, gazing at the moon. Friedrich painted three versions of this theme, one of which -- Two Men Contemplating the Moon -- has recently been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book discusses the Metropolitan's painting in conjunction with the other two versions and a number of related paintings and drawings by Friedrich and his Dresden friends. It also presents fascinating details about the moon itself -- including what was known about it in Friedrich's lifetime and its presence and symbolism in contemporary Romantic poetry.

Author : Sarah Burns,John Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1101 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520943827

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American Art to 1900 by Sarah Burns,John Davis Pdf

From the simple assertion that "words matter" in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of artists issuing stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown, little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of American art through the many voices of its contemporary practitioners, consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights such critically important themes as women artists, African American representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery, institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.

Author : Lynn Gamwell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691121123

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Exploring the Invisible by Lynn Gamwell Pdf

This sumptuous and stunningly illustrated book shows through words and images how directly, profoundly, and indisputably modern science has transformed modern art. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, a strange and exciting new world came into focus--a world of microorganisms in myriad shapes and colors, prehistoric fossils, bizarre undersea creatures, spectrums of light and sound, molecules of water, and atomic particles. Exploring the Invisible reveals that the world beyond the naked eye--made visible by advances in science--has been a major inspiration for artists ever since, influencing the subjects they choose as well as their techniques and modes of representation. Lynn Gamwell traces the evolution of abstract art through several waves, beginning with Romanticism. She shows how new windows into telescopic and microscopic realms--combined with the growing explanatory importance of mathematics and new definitions of beauty derived from science--broadly and profoundly influenced Western art. Art increasingly reflected our more complex understanding of reality through increasing abstraction. For example, a German physiologist's famous demonstration that color is not in the world but in the mind influenced Monet's revolutionary painting with light. As the first wave of enthusiasm for science crested, abstract art emerged in Brussels and Munich. By 1914, it could be found from Moscow to Paris. Throughout the book are beautiful images from both science and art--some well known, others rare--that reveal the scientific sources mined by Impressionist and Symbolist painters, Art Nouveau sculptors and architects, Cubists, and other nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists. With a foreword by astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, Exploring the Invisible appears in an age when both artists and scientists are exploring the deepest meanings of life, consciousness, and the universe.