Michael Charlesworth

Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Concentrating on Britain and France, the book addresses its subject in an interdisciplinary fashion, drawing on poetry, novels, landscape gardens, spectacular entertainments, and science as well as visual art in order to elucidate panoramic art, and questions of spectral or ghostly visions. These topics set in play the themes of the subjective, and the scientific/imperial that are further developed throughout the book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9781138259430
• ISBN-10: 1138259438
• Artikelnr.: 57046423

Autorenporträt

Michael Charlesworth is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has published research on both eighteenth and nineteenth century subjects, especially on landscape and the history of gardens. He is the author of The Gothic Revival 1720-1870: Literary Sources and Documents (2002) and The English Garden (3 vols, 1993), and has published essays on the picturesque, early photography, cartography, and the late twentieth-century artists Derek Jarman and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Panorama
Ghosts and visions
Into the abyss of time
Reverie and imagination
Cythera and the loss of Venus in France
The 'new Cythera': Bougainville, Hodges, Gaugin in Tahiti
Monet re-states and Mallarmé suggests the subject matter
Bibliography
Index.