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The Sun - The Source of Light in Art (Hardcover)
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The Sun - The Source of Light in Art (Hardcover)
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For as long as humans have been making art, they have turned to the
sun as the source of light, warmth and life itself. It appears as a
symbol of limitless power, as the personification of gods and of
Christ, and as a harbinger of change. Artists have also used the
sun as a means of exploring light and color and as an entrée into
discussions about climate. The first of its kind, this catalog
investigates visual representations of the sun from antiquity to
the present day. It is divided into seven roughly chronological
sections that look at both epoch-spanning and period specific
examples, including symbolic, allegorical representations, the
iconography of mythological subjects, and mimetic qualities such as
typology, phenomenology, and emotional effect. It includes more
than two hundred stunning reproductions of well- and lesser-known
works. Incisive and enlightening texts explore how solar symbolism
figured in pre-Christian objects through 17th-century depictions of
the “Sun King” Louix XIV; how artists such as Rubens and Monet
employed the sun in their narrative paintings; how the
Impressionists first investigated the sun’s effects on a
landscape; how Neo-Impressionist such as Seurat experimented with
color based on the Newtonian analysis of the solar spectrum; and
how 20th-century artists incorporated a broad array of abstract,
surrealistic, and transformative modes of solar representation into
a variety of media.
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