Nordic Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

Gunnarsson, Torsten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300070411 ISBN 13: 9780300070415

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this richly illustrated book, Torsten Gunnarsson provides for the first time a comprehensive study of landscape painting in Scandinavia during its vital period of development in the nineteenth century. Gunnarsson show how, as Scandinavia searched for a national identity, the magnificent wildernessand the paintings it inspired-- became a symbol of Nordic strength and vigor.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Swedish

Review:

Mr. Gunnarsson provides more than a catalogue of painters and their lives. He examines the ideas and political situations that led, after the Napoleonic Wars, to the realization among Scandinavian artists that fjords and fir trees are as paintable as Roman ruins, and silvery northern mist as interesting as golden Italian sunlight. The book is lavishly illustrated with excellent, often striking works-- most of them located in Scandinavian museums. Those painters found an appreciative audience on their home ground. -- The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe Lou Adams

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0300070411
• ISBN 13: 9780300070415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 293