 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
LANDSCAPE AND WESTERN ART
|
| By: |
Malcolm Andrews |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£24.49 |
| Our price: |
£17.88 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£6.61 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0192842331 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780192842336 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-2 days.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 2 available |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 October, 1999 |
| Series: |
Oxford History of Art |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
This book debates the concept of landscape and explores particular periods and national traditions over the past 500 years of Western Landscape Art in painting, photography, garden design, Land Art, and other forms of expression. It aims to stimulate a rethinking of assumptions about landscape and art; it is partly a stock-taking, in reviewing and discussing recent theorization about landscape, and it highlights the extent to which landscape aesthetics involve a widerange of non art-historical disciplines. |
| Synopsis: |
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 picturesque or as exploration of living processes. These issues are raised and explored in connection with Western cultural movements, and within a full international and historical context. Many forms of landscape art are included: painting, gardening, panorama, poetry, photography, and art. The book is designed to both take stock of recent interdisciplinary debates and act as a stimulus to rethinking our assumptions about landscape. |
| Illustrations: |
numerous colour and black and white halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|