Narrative Painting in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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2023
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6857-3 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6857-3 (ISBN)
How do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales. -- .
This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting. Covering works from France, Germany, Britain, Italy and elsewhere, it traces the ways in which immensely popular artists like Jean-Léon Gérôme, Karl von Piloty and William Quiller Orchardson used unique visual strategies to tell thrilling and engaging stories. Regardless of genre, content or national context, these paintings share a fundamental modern narrative mode. Unlike traditional art, they do not rely on textual sources; nor do they tell stories through the human body alone. Instead, they experiment with objects, spaces, cause-and-effect relations and open-ended ambiguity, prompting viewers and reviewers to read for clues in order to weave their own elaborate tales. -- .
This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting. Covering works from France, Germany, Britain, Italy and elsewhere, it traces the ways in which immensely popular artists like Jean-Léon Gérôme, Karl von Piloty and William Quiller Orchardson used unique visual strategies to tell thrilling and engaging stories. Regardless of genre, content or national context, these paintings share a fundamental modern narrative mode. Unlike traditional art, they do not rely on textual sources; nor do they tell stories through the human body alone. Instead, they experiment with objects, spaces, cause-and-effect relations and open-ended ambiguity, prompting viewers and reviewers to read for clues in order to weave their own elaborate tales. -- .
Nina Lübbren is Associate Professor of Art History and Film at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. -- .
1 The terms of narrative
2 Eloquent objects
3 Patterns of reception
4 Stories in paint
5 Epilogue: Into the twentieth century
Index -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.05.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 colour illustrations, 54 black & white illustrations |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 762 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6857-X / 152616857X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6857-3 / 9781526168573 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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