Cosmos: From Romanticism to Avant-Garde
Montreal, ONT: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1999. Hardcover. Black cloth/color DJ. 396 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. VG/VG tiny tear at top of dustjacket. Item #22131
ISBN: 9783791320892
Text is in English. Catalog of the exhibition held at the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 17-Oct. 17, 1999 and at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Nov. 23, 1999-Feb. 20, 2000./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-393). Contents as follows: Nature and the cosmos. From Humboldt to Hubble / Jean Clair ; The scales of the universe : from the finite to the infinite / Stéphane Deligeorges -- The promised land. Heart of the Andes : Humboldt's Cosmos and Frederic Edwin Church / Günter Metken -- Nineteenth-century America : the new frontiers / Mayo Graham ; First images of Yosemite, first icons of the American West / Mary Warner Marien ; Geological views as social art : explorers and photographers in the American West, 1859-1879 / François Brunet -- The voyage to the Poles. The artistic conquest of the Far North / Eleanor Jones Harvey ; Icebergs, polar bears and the Aurora Borealis / Rosalind Pepall -- Beyond the earth : the moon. "Magnificent desolation" : the moon photographed / Christopher Phillips --Imaginary cosmologies. The new astronomy and the expanding cosmos : the view from France at the end of the nineteenth century / Barbara Larson ; The cosmos as finitude : from Boccioni's Chromogony to Fontana's Spatial art / Giovanni Lista ; The idea of cosmic architecture and the Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century / Igor A. Kazus ; Cosmic imaginings, from symbolism to abstract art / Constance Naubert-Riser -- To infinity and back. Contemporary cosmologies / Didier Ottinger. Abstract: As European settlers in America explored the strange landscapes of the New World, their artistic vocabulary drew on the painterly traditions of the Old World, in particular the works of John Martin, J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich, C.G. Carus, Gustave Courbet, and Gustave Dore Romantic evocations of the sublime were transplanted into scenes of the uninhabited West, as well as into the late 19th-century conquest of the arctic regions, by painters such as F.E. Church, and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. With contributions by internationally acclaimed historians of art and science, this beautifully illustrated book will be essential reading for students of 19th- and 20th-century art, photography, and architecture, as well as for all those interested in the history of representation in the modern world.
OCLC: 41610136
Price: $35.00