Text| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 759.3 ALT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000201724 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The first independent or 'pure' landscapes in Western art were produced in southern Germany in the first decades of the sixteenth century. They were painted, drawn and etched by Albrecht Altdorfer of Regensburg and his only slightly less flamboyant contemporary Wolf Huber of Passau. These radical experiments in landscape appeared without advance notice and disappeared from view almost as suddenly. Altdorfer converted outdoor settings into a theatre for stylish draughtsmanship and extravagant colour effects. At the same time, his landscapes offered a densely textured interpretation of that quintessentially German locus, the forest interior. In this revealing study Christopher S. Wood shows how Altdorfer prised landscape out of its subsidiary role as setting and background for narrative history painting and devotional works, and gave it a new, independent life of its own.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Independent landscape Where landscape could appear Landscape and text Landscape as parergon or by-work
- 2 Frame and work The German artist's career Subject and setting The landscape study
- 3 The German forest, Two-dimensional pleasures Germania illustrata Outdoor worship Wanderer, traveller
- 4 Topography and fiction The topographical drawing Style in Altdorfer's pen-and-ink landscapes
- 5 The published landscape Altdorfer's public 'Printed drawings' Order and disorder
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Checklist of Landscapes
- List of Illustrations
- Index