Landscape and western art Malcolm Andrews

By:

Andrews, Malcolm, 1942-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford history of artPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 1999ISBN:

0192100467
0192842331

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

704.9436 AND

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	704.9436 AND (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000207184

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgements (p. vii)
Chapter 1 Land into Landscape (p. 1)
Chapter 2 Subject or Setting?: Landscape and Renaissance Painting (p. 25)
Chapter 3 Landscape as Amenity (p. 53)
Chapter 4 Topography and the Beau Ideal (p. 77)
Chapter 5 Framing the View (p. 107)
Chapter 6 'Astonished beyond Expression': Landscape, the Sublime, and the Unpresentable (p. 129)
Chapter 7 Landscape and Politics (p. 151)
Chapter 8 Nature as Picture or Process? (p. 177)
Chapter 9 Landscape into Land: Earth Works, Art, and Environment (p. 201)
Notes (p. 224)
List of Illustrations (p. 231)
Bibliographic Essay (p. 236)
Index (p. 243)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Malcolm Andrews is Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of Dickens on England and the English, The Search for the Picturesque, and Dickens and the Grown-up Child. He has edited a three-volume anthology, The Picturesque: Sources and Documents and is currently editor of the journal The Dickensian.