Epic Landscapes : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor / Julia A. Sienkewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sienkewicz, Julia A., author.

Series:

University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture

Studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry.

Landscapes in art--18th century.

Landscapes in art.

Watercolor painting--18th century.

Watercolor painting.

Physical Description:

285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.

Distribution:

Virginia : Distributed by University of Virginia Press.

Place of Publication:

Newwark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, 2019.

Summary:

Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe's substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe's Virginian watercolors, including a series of complex trompe l'oeil studies and three significant illustrated manuscripts. Though Latrobe's architecture is well known, his watercolors have received little critical attention. Epic Landscapes rediscovers Latrobe's watercolors as an ambitious body of work and reconsiders the close relationship between the visual and spatial sensibility of these images and his architectural designs. It also offers a fresh analysis of Latrobe within the context of creative practice in the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century as he explored contemporary ideas concerning the form of art for Republican society and the social impacts of revolution.

Contents:

Introduction

Atlantic purgatory

Latrobe in a European context

A solitary traveler in the American woods

Learning to read the stones

Stage tricks for landscape

performing spaces

Castles in the air

Illusions of selfhood

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1644531593

9781644531594

OCLC:

1104072508