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Frederic Church - The Art and Science of Detail (Hardcover)
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Frederic Church - The Art and Science of Detail (Hardcover)
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Frederic Church (1826-1900), the most celebrated painter in the
United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental
landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle
East. These paintings were unsurpassed in their attention to
detail, yet the significance of this pictorial approach has
remained largely unexplored. In this important reconsideration of
Church's works, Jennifer Raab offers the first sustained
examination of the aesthetics of detail that fundamentally shaped
19th-century American landscape painting. Moving between historical
context and close readings of famous canvases-including Niagara,
The Heart of the Andes, and The Icebergs-Raab argues that Church's
art challenged an earlier model of painting based on symbolic
unity, revealing a representation of nature with surprising
connections to scientific discourses of the time. The book traces
Church's movement away from working in oil on canvas to shaping the
physical landscape of Olana, his self-designed estate on the Hudson
River, a move that allowed the artist to rethink scale and process
while also engaging with pressing ecological questions. Beautifully
illustrated with dramatic spreads and striking details of Church's
works, Frederic Church: The Art and Science of Detail offers a
profoundly new understanding of this canonical artist.
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