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Christen Købke : Danish master of light / David Jackson ; with a contribution by Kasper Monrad.
LIBRA ND723.K6 A4 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, David, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Købke, Christen, 1810-1848--Exhibitions.
- Købke, Christen.
- Købke, Christen, 1810-1848.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press in association with National Galleries of Scotland, 2010.
- Summary:
- Christen Købke (1819-1848) was arguably the greatest painter of Denmark's "Golden Age," the period of the nation's supreme artistic achievement. He had the remarkable ability to invest the simplest corner of town or countryside with charm and delicacy, without resorting to the artificial rhetoric of academic traditions. He endowed ordinary people and places, and simple motifs, with a universal significance; a world in microcosm. This beautiful book, written by leading scholars of Scandinavian art, offers an overview of Købke's achievement within its cultural context, and also highlights the most innovative aspects of his work, including outdoor sketching, his fascination with painterly immediacy in the treatment of light and atmosphere, his exquisite originality, and his experimental outlook.
- Notes:
- Catalog published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, Mar. 17-June 13, 2010, and at the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh, July 4-Oct. 3, 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-122) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300166637
- 030016663X
- OCLC:
- 500795961
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