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Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape

Door Christopher S. Wood

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#383779-WE9
Titel
Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape
Auteur
Wood, Christopher S.
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Reaktion Books
Jaar van uitgave
1993
ISBN10
0948462469
ISBN13
9780948462467
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blue cloth, dust jacket, numerous (full page) illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
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 his
... (Lees verder)tory painting and devotional works, and gave it a new, independent life of its own.
Pagina's
323
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 25,00

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