George Inness And The Science Of Landscape - Couverture rigide

DeLue, Rachael Z.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226142299 ISBN 13 : 9780226142296

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2005

Synopsis

George Inness (1825-94) is considered one of America's greatest landscape painters. A complicated artist and thinker, he painted stunning, evocative views of the American countryside.Throughout his career, Inness struggled to make visible what was invisible to the human eye by combining a deep interest in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry - including optics, psychology, physiology, and mathematics - with an idiosyncratic brand of mysticism. Rachael Ziady DeLue's "George Inness and the Science of Landscape" - the first in-depth examination of Inness' career to appear in several decades - demonstrates how the artistic, spiritual, and scientific aspects of Inness' art found expression in his masterly landscapes. In fact, Inness' practice was not merely shaped by his preoccupation with the nature and limits of human perception; he conceived of his labor as a science in its own right. This beautifully illustrated work reveals Inness' profound investment in the science and philosophy of his time and illuminates the complex manner in which the fields of art and science intersected in nineteenth-century America.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rachael Ziady DeLue is assistant professor of art history at Princeton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226142299
• ISBN 13: 9780226142296
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: The University of Chicago Press; https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html; ; 5801 S. Ellis Avenue; Chicago; IL; 60637; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible