Rooms with a view the open window in the 19th century Sabine Rewald

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rewald, Sabine, author.

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Windows in art--Exhibitions.

Windows in art.

Painting, European--19th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, European.

Drawing, European--19th century--Exhibitions.

Drawing, European.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Art criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages) color illustrations

Other Title:

Open window in the 19th century.

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art New Haven Yale University Press [2011]

Summary:

During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian painting and drawing. "Rooms with a View" is the first book to explore this intriguing theme in European art, with its Romantic intimations of unfulfilled longing and its associated qualities of poetry, luminosity, and interiority. Artists depicted this intangible mood with images of contemplative figures in hushed, sparsely furnished rooms; painters diligently at work in their studios; simple, serene displays of light entering a chamber; and windows as the focal point of views in their own right. "Rooms with a View" features forty oils and thirty works on paper by both well-known and largely undiscovered artists, including Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Adolph Menzel, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Martinus Rorbye, Jean Alaux, Leon Cogniet, and Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy

Contents:

Reflections on the open window

Catalogue. Paintings ; Drawings and watercolors

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 5-July 4, 2011

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-186) and index

New York Book Festival Award in Photography/Art, Honorable Mention (2011)

Other Format:

Print version Rewald, Sabine. Rooms with a view

OCLC:

1200570731