Art des Inhalts: | Ausstellungskatalog (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2018, Poughkeepsie, NY); Ausstellungskatalog (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2019, Ithaca, NY); Bildband; Ausstellungskatalog (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vasar College, 21.09.2018-09.12.2018, Poughkeepsie, NY); Ausstellungskatalog (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 16.02.2019-12.05.2019, Ithaca, NY) |
Anmerkung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140) and index Rückseite der Titelseite: "This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Past Time: Geology in European and American Art, on display at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vasar College, Poughkeepsie, New York from September 21 - December 9, 2018, and at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York from February 16 - May 12, 2019." Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage FID). UB Heidelberg |
Inhalt: | Past Time: Geology in European and American Art looks at sketches and studies made by European and American artists from the 1770s to the 1890s who were engaged with a new, scientific emphasis on the Earth. In this arguably golden age of art and science, artists traveled and investigated the land internationally, noting Earth’s craggy features keenly in their watercolors, drawings, and oil sketches made on the spot or back in the studio. From a topographical, often strata-focused means to a later mode that evoked nature’s great transformational powers over time, this major loan exhibition explores European and American artists pursuing geological wonders. This is a beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary volume which explores how European and American artists of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revealed a compelling interest in dramatic geologic phenomena: caves and natural arches, boulders and rock formations, mountains, glaciers, volcanoes, and cliffs. From a topographical, often strata-focused means to a later mode that evoked natures great transformational powers over time, European and American artists pursued their cross-cultural travels in seeking geological wonders. The authors address the importance and history of geology, the most popular science of the 1800s. 'Past Time' features a combination of outstanding drawings, watercolours, and brilliant oil sketches and studies, with works by Asher B Durand, Frederic Church, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, J. M. W. Turner, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Thomas Rowlandson, amongst many others. This volume is a great addition to the currently available publications on the relationship between the growth of natural science and the interest amongst artists in capturing and presenting scientific phenomena and an ever-changing earth. Exhibition: The Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, USA (21.09. - 09.12.2018) |
