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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787864403321

Autore

Wood Christopher S.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Reaktion Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78023-115-6

Edizione

[Revised and expanded second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 p.)

Disciplina

759.3

Soggetti

Art, Modern

Landscape painting, Renaissance - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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