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Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory - Hardcover

 
9783777443584: Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3777443581 ISBN 13: 9783777443584
Verlag: Hirmer, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Afterglow" brings together the known memorial paintings by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) for the first time, unveiling how Church returned to the medium of landscape throughout his career to create solace in times of loss. This book presents new scholarship on the memorial functions of landscape in nineteenth-century America through the lens of the distinctive oeuvre of the eras foremost landscape painter." Allegra K. Davis examines Churchs memorial paintings as a group within the context of the periods material culture of mourning and sanctuary landscapes such as rural cemeteries. In doing so she illuminates the iconography and practices Church embraced, both in his paintings and in the creation of his home, Olana, to give voice to loss. An additional essay by Rebecca Bedell contextualises the sentimental and therapeutic aspects of landscape painting and design in nineteenth-century American art.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Allegra K. Davis is associate curator for the Olana Partnership at Olana State Historic Site in New York.

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Afterglow brings together the known memorial paintings by Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) for the first time, unveiling how Church returned to the medium of landscape throughout his career to create solace in times of loss. This book presents new scholarship on the memorial functions of landscape in nineteenth-century America through the lens of the distinctive oeuvre of the era’s foremost landscape painter.

Allegra K. Davis examines Church’s memorial paintings as a group within the context of the period’s material culture of mourning and sanctuary landscapes such as rural cemeteries. In doing so she illuminates the iconography and practices Church embraced, both in his paintings and in the creation of his home, Olana, to give voice to loss. An additional essay by Rebecca Bedell contextualizes the sentimental and therapeutic aspects of landscape painting and design in nineteenth-century American art.

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Verlag
Hirmer
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3777443581
ISBN 13 
9783777443584
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
128
Herausgeber
Davis Allegra K.
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