Albrecht Altdorfer and the origins of landscape / Christopher S. Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Christopher S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern.

Landscape painting, Renaissance--Germany.

Landscape painting, Renaissance.

Altdorfer, Albrecht, approximately 1480-1538--Criticism and interpretation.

Altdorfer, Albrecht.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 p.)

Edition:

Revised and expanded second edition.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Reaktion Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditional role as background to its new place as the focal point of a picture. His paintings, drawings, and etchings appeared almost without warning and mysteriously disappeared from view just as suddenly. In Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape, Christopher S. Wood shows how Altdorfer transformed what had been the mere setting for sacred and historical figures into a principal venue for stylish draftsmanship and idiosyncratic painterly effects. At the same time, his landscapes offered a den

Contents:

Cover; Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape; Imprint Page; Contents; 1. Independent Landscape; Where Landscape could Appear; Landscape and Text; Landscape as Parergon or By-Work; 2. Frame and Work; The German Artist's Career; Subject and Setting; The Landscape Study; 3. The German Forest; Two-Dimensional Pleasures; Germania Illustrata; Outdoor Worship; Wanderer, Traveller; 4. Topography and Fiction; The Topographical Drawing; Style in Altdorfer's Pen-and-Ink Landscapes; 5. The Published Landscape; Altdorfer's Public; 'Printed Drawings'; Order and Disorder

Afterword to the Second EditionReferences; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Checklist of Landscapes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9781780231150

1780231156

OCLC:

871781640