Elegy Landscapes
Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime
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2018
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-65150-8 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-65150-8 (ISBN)
A sweeping look at the lives and work of two important English Romantic painters.
Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed the terrible beauty of the natural world from an intimate, close-up perspective.
Plumly studies the paintings against the pull of the artists’ lives, probing how each finds the sublime in different, though connected, worlds. At once a meditation on the difficulties in achieving truly immortal works of art and an exploration of the relationship between artist and artwork, Elegy Landscapes takes a wide-angled look at the philosophy of the sublime.
Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these painters portrayed the terrible beauty of the natural world from an intimate, close-up perspective.
Plumly studies the paintings against the pull of the artists’ lives, probing how each finds the sublime in different, though connected, worlds. At once a meditation on the difficulties in achieving truly immortal works of art and an exploration of the relationship between artist and artwork, Elegy Landscapes takes a wide-angled look at the philosophy of the sublime.
Stanley Plumly (1939–2019) authored eleven books of poetry, including the National Book Award finalist Old Heart, and four books of nonfiction. His honors include the Paterson Poetry Prize and Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, among others. Plumly was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland as well Maryland’s poet laureate from 2009 to 2018.
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.08.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 pages of color illustration |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 165 x 218 mm |
Gewicht | 482 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
ISBN-10 | 0-393-65150-9 / 0393651509 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-65150-8 / 9780393651508 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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