Ink and light : the influence of Claude Lorrain's etchings on England / Andrew Brink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brink, Andrew W., 1932- author.

Contributor:

Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682., editor.

Brink Collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682--Influence.

Lorrain, Claude.

Brink Collection.

Etching--France--17th century.

Etching.

Etching--England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013.

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Quebec] : Published for the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), an eminent seventeenth-century landscape painter, was an equally talented graphic artist. Lorrain's etchings match the mastery and execution of his paintings and yet are largely unrecognized by contemporary collectors and art historians. Andrew Brink, an astute and discriminating art collector, amassed an impressive collection of etchings, engravings, and mezzotints by European master printmakers from the sixteenth century onwards. The keystone works in the Brink Collection, now housed in Guelph, Ontario's Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, are by Claude Lorrain. In Ink and Light, Brink positions Lorrain's prints as seminal to the establishment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century aesthetics in England, which gave rise to the English pictorialism in art and landscape architecture that would have international influence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He discusses the technical and material character of Lorrain's etchings, as well as their connection to literature and philosophy in early modern times. While Brink's main focus is the impact of the etchings, he also looks at paintings and drawings by Lorrain, in addition to works made by other artists after Lorrain. Featuring forty of Claude Lorrain's etchings from the Brink Collection, Ink and Light fills a significant gap in British art history by providing a close reading of Lorrain's prints, their reception in England, and the enduring impact they had on a distinctive British aesthetic.

Contents:

1 Claude Lorrain's Etchings in England

2 Claudian Architecture

3 Original and Reproductive Prints

1 4 Themes in the Etchings

Biographical Essentials

List of Works

Collecting Claude.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition; features forty of Claude Lorrain's etchings from the Brink Collection, which are housed at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-155) and index.

Related Work:

Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682. Etchings. Selections, editor.

ISBN:

9780773589322

0773589325

9780773589315

0773589317

OCLC:

865475092