Landscape - A Closer Look
Redesigned edition
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Landscape is probably the most popular type of painting, but anyone who has ever been disappointed by vacation photographs knows how difficult it is to turn a view into a picture. This book shows how artists in past centuries translated outdoor space and light into paint, and how landscape imagery evolved from mere ornament into a visual metaphor of the human condition. The story is told from its beginnings in Roman mural decoration, through the Renaissance transformation of landscape into a vehicle for feelings and ideas, to the Impressionist revolution and beyond. The continuing relevance of art to how we see the world, and our place in it, is demonstrated through a practical discussion of optics of real and painted landscape, illustrated with works from the National Gallery, London.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781857096279 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press |
Imprint: | National Gallery Company |
Pub date: | 02 Feb 2018 |
Edition: | Redesigned edition |
DEWEY: | 758.109 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 96 |
Weight: | 216g |
Height: | 151mm |
Width: | 210mm |
Spine width: | 9mm |