
The Rockies and the Alps
Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance of the Mountains
D Giles Ltd (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 12. March 2018
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-907804-96-0 (ISBN)
Description
Inspired by the grandeur of the Rockies and the Alps, American and European artists strove to capture their power in paint. In the mid-19th century, when photographers, scientists, and armchair travellers were awakening to these wonders, improved transportation and accommodations made mountains and glaciers more accessible.
This richly illustrated volume brings together dazzling depictions of the Rockies and the Alps, while investigating how geology, flora and fauna, and social and literary contexts relate to the rise of alpine landscape painting.It features 60 key works by Alexandre Calame, J.M. W. Turner, John Ruskin, Samuel F. B. Morse, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Worthington Whittredge, Arthur Frederick Kensett, Charles Bierstadt, Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge.
This richly illustrated volume brings together dazzling depictions of the Rockies and the Alps, while investigating how geology, flora and fauna, and social and literary contexts relate to the rise of alpine landscape painting.It features 60 key works by Alexandre Calame, J.M. W. Turner, John Ruskin, Samuel F. B. Morse, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, Worthington Whittredge, Arthur Frederick Kensett, Charles Bierstadt, Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
100 colour
Dimensions
Height: 287 mm
Width: 248 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-907804-96-0 (9781907804960)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Katherine Manthorne is Professor of Modern Art of the Americas, Doctoral Program in Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Tricia Laughlin Bloom is Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum. Patricia Mainardi is Professor Emeritus of 18th and 19th Century European Art, Doctoral Program in Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY. James M. Saslow is Professor Emeritus of Art History and Theatre, Doctoral Program in Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY.
Content
Lenders to the Exhibition; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Close to the Soil: Newark's Landscape Painting and Natural Science Collections by Tricia Laughlin Bloom; Julie to Frankenstein to Heidi: The Alps in the European Imagination by Patricia Mainardi; Painting the Rockies, Invoking the Alps: American Artists and their Romance with Mountains by Katherine Manthorne; Nature, God, and Hashish: Fitz Hugh Ludlow's Travels with Albert Bierstadt by James M. Saslow; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Photo credits