In the Biedermeier period, scenes and idylls of the early works by Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), odd misfits, soldiers, monks and maids are all featured in the middle-class provincial milieu of the time. Informed by a free painting style, however, the landscapes of his late works anticipate Impressionism. Comprising 430 objects, the Werner Friedrich Ott Collection in the Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt includes, alongside paintings and drawings by the famous artist, an extensive Historicist collection of ar...
Pictures-within-Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Studies in Art Historiography)
by Catherine Roach
Repainting the work of another into one’s own canvas is a deliberate and often highly fraught act of reuse. This book examines the creation, display, and reception of such images. Artists working in nineteenth-century London were in a peculiar position: based in an imperial metropole, yet undervalued by their competitors in continental Europe. Many claimed that Britain had yet to produce a viable national school of art. Using pictures-within-pictures, British painters challenged these claims and...
„Ein Bild rührt uns, als Kunstwerk betrachtet, nur durch das, was wirklich dargestellt ist. Was wir uns dabey denken, gehört nicht ihm, sondern uns an." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) „Mein Gemälde beruht auf der Tatsache, dass nur dasjenige anwesend ist, was auch gese-hen werden kann." (Frank Stella) Mehr als eineinhalb Jahrhunderte liegen diese Zitate auseinander, und beide fordern das selbstbezügliche, deshalb ohne Zusatzwissen und ohne Bezugnahme auf nicht im Bild Sichtbares verständliche K...
Pastures Green & Dark Satanic Mills
by Assistant Professor Tim Barringer and Oliver Fairclough
Facing the Public: Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution (Critical Perspectives in Art History)
by Tony Halliday
This work examines the effect of the French Revolution on portrait painting. Portraits were the most widely commissioned paintings in 18th-century France. But most portraits were produced for private consumptions, and were therefore seen as inferior to art designed for public exhibition. The Revolution endowed private values with an inprecedented significance, and the way people responded to portraits changed as a result. Art historians have traditionally concentrated on art associated with the...
Walter Leistikow − Briefe von 1889 bis 1908
145 Briefe des Malers, darunter 54 bisher unveröffentlichte, in privaten und öffentlichen Archiven entdeckte Schriftstücke, zeichnen ein facettenreiches Bild von Leistikows Leben und Wirken. Seine Schreiben an berühmte Zeitgenossen wie Gerhart Hauptmann, Theodor Wolff, Harry Graf Kessler, Edvard Munch und Richard Dehmel entführen in das kulturelle Treiben Berlins und offenbaren vergnügliche, nachdenkliche sowie alltägliche Begebenheiten. Neben den vollständig abgedruckten und kenntnisreich komme...
Delving deep into the subjects of philosophy, psychology, and astronomy, this beautifully illustrated and wide-ranging volume offers a chronological approach to understanding how artists of all kinds have dealt with the subject of nighttime. It opens with the early nineteenth century, focusing on the tension between romanticism and enlightenment, idealism and realism, beauty and science. It then goes on to explore the introduction of electricity, the subsequent illumination of urban spaces, and...
Hogarth to Turner (National Gallery London Publications)
by Louise Govier
This book traces some key developments in British 18th- and 19th-century painting, focusing in particular on the outstanding portraits and landscapes in the National Gallery’s collection. Compare what rival portrait painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds offered their sitters: the choice between shimmering colours and expressive brushwork, or ennobling classical references. Their techniques and philosophical ideals would be challenged and developed even further by the next generati...
India in Art in Ireland (British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700)
India in Art in Ireland is the first book to address how the relationship between these two ends of the British Empire played out in the visual arts. It demonstrates that Irish ambivalence about British imperialism in India complicates the assumption that colonialism precluded identifying with an exotic other. Examining a wide range of media, including manuscript illuminations, paintings, prints, architecture, stained glass, and photography, its authors demonstrate the complex nature of empire i...
A discussion of sensibility, sensation, perception and painting, Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art is an original work which argues that the eighteenth-century Scottish philosophy of moral sense played a central role in shaping ideas explored by figures such as Cézanne and Monet over one hundred years later. Proposing that sensibility not reason was the basis of morality, the philosophy of moral sense gave birth to the idea of the supremacy of the imagination. Allied to the belief that th...
The renowned scholar Rudiger Safranski's Romanticism: A German Affair both offers an accessible overview of Romanticism and, more critically, traces its lasting influence, for better and for ill, on German culture. Safranski begins with the eighteenth century Sturm und Drang movement, which would sow the seeds for Romanticism in Germany. While Romanticism was a broad artistic, literary, and intellectual movement, German thinkers were especially concerned with its strong philosophical-metaphysica...
Pierre Jean David, besser bekannt unter dem Namen David d'Angers, gehört zu den großen Bildhauern des Klassizismus. Seine Verehrung für Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Gustav Carus und Caspar David Friedrich fand Ausdruck in zahlreichen Porträtbüsten und -medaillons. Mit großer Sensibilität für das Wesen der dargestellten Persönlichkeiten - aber auch oft mit verherrlichendem Pathos - verlieh David d'Angers den Geistesgrößen seiner Zeit eine Aura von überzeitlicher Genialität.
A revelatory study of one of the 18th century’s greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), though conventionally known as a ‘painter of light’, returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of innocence, isolation and tragedy. In this long-awaited book, Matthew Craske adopts a fresh approach to...
This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! It deals with the topic of the innocence of the eye. As a blind person might see the world if the gift of sight were suddenly returned - this is how we might describe the effect of William Turner's paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, Turner's uncompromising 19th-century defender, alluded to this idea when he spoke of an 'innocence of the eye' which perceived the world's colours and forms before it could recognize their significance. But to develo...
Spreading Canvas (British Art Centre at Yale Series (YUP))
Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, this publication shows how the genre corresponded with Britain’s growing imperial power and celebrated its increasing military presence on the seas, representing the subject matter in a way that was both documentary and sublime. Works by leading purv...
Gods and Heroes
by Emmanuel Schwartz, Emmanuelle Brugerolles, and Patricia Mainardi
Telling the fascinating story behind the pivotal role of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and its influence on so much of late seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century European visual culture, Gods and Heroes features 208 extraordinary art works from the Ecole's collection. These include remarkable paintings by Jean-Honore Fragonard, Nicolas Poussin, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Antoine Watteau, as well as drawings by Leonardo and Raphael. A combination of g...
Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten 1750–2000
Art of the United States ist eine wegweisende Anthologie, die drei Jahrhunderte amerikanischer Kunst anhand einer breiten Auswahl historischer Texte vorstellt, darunter u. a. Schriften von Künstler/-innen, Kritiker/-innen, Mäzen/-innen und Literat/-innen. Durch die Zusammenstellung der Texte mit hochwertigen Reproduktionen von Kunstwerken bietet das Buch eine unverzichtbare Grundlage für das Verständnis der bildenden Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten. Erläuternde Einleitungen, kontextbezogene Essays...
William Blake. Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’. The Complete Drawings
by Sebastian Schutze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli
Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the soul’s path towards salvation. In the last few years of his life, Romantic poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827) produced 102 illustrations for Dante’s masterwork, from pe...
Samuel Palmer was one of the most original artists Britain has produced. Still a teen when he was plucked from "the pit of modern art," he embarked on an intensely personal journey that led to an astonishing outpouring of mystical drawings and later to England's first artistic colony, "The Ancients," based in the idyllic landscape of Shoreham. This book reprints the first major writings on Palmer, which were published for a retrospective exhibition in 1881. They include a biography by his son, A...
. A single, encompassing view of the rise of landscape art in Britain from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. . Features masterpieces by renowned artists: JMW Turner, Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones, Frank Brangwyn, August John, Cedric Morris, Stanley Spencer, Claude Monet, Laura Knight, Alfred Sisley, Edward Lear, Graham Sutherland and John Piper. 'Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills' recounts the story of British landscap...