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| Author | : Kevin J. Avery |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Total Pages | : 70 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Andes |
| ISBN | : 0810964511 |
| Author | : Kevin J. Avery |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Andes |
| ISBN | : 9789994925193 |
| Author | : Jennifer Raab |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2015-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0300208375 |
A reconsideration of Church's works offering a sustained examination of the aesthetics of detail that fundamentally shaped 19th-century American landscape painting.
| Author | : Frederic Edwin Church |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0801444306 |
"The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church's collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketches and finished paintings, depicting the breadth of his subjects and the high technical skills that established him as an eminent and influential artist in his own time. As works he held on to or reacquired and kept in his house during his lifetime, they embody the heart of his artistic vision and convey a deeply personal slant. As pictures he hung and lived with at Olana, they tell the larger story of that extraordinary place and are as illuminating when seen in context as on their own."--from the IntroductionFrederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) traveled the world, captured its beauty in countless paintings, and brought it home to live at Olana, his castle on the Hudson. The name was inspired by a reference Church found to a fortress or a treasury-storehouse in ancient Persia. This extraordinary selection of Church's paintings from his collection at Olana puts the most cherished of his treasures on full display in a volume that includes eighty color plates.Church's paintings, among the most acclaimed examples of art of the Hudson River School, are found in museums and private collections around the globe. However, Church kept some of his art close by during his lifetime. The rich collection that remains at Olana includes about seven hundred pieces, including notebooks, drawings, and oils, both sketches and completed canvases. They cover the full range of Church's career chronologically and thematically. The highlights from his personal collection are found in the touring exhibition that accompanies this book. The introduction by John Wilmerding and a substantial essay by Kevin J. Avery place the work into the context of Church's life and travels and examine Church's influences and the public reception of his art. Throughout Treasures from Olana, they discuss how profoundly Church's hilltop home and the surrounding landscape inspired and informed his work. His paintings, in turn, illuminate Olana more than a century after his death. The Olana Partnership, Hudson, N.Y., and New York State's Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, Albany, N.Y., organized Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church.
| Author | : Louis Legrand Noble |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 30 |
| Release | : 2018-05-05 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780366554836 |
Excerpt from Church's Painting: The Heart of the Andes But how are these opening remarks pertinent to landscape-painting, or to its criticism? Evidently, some apprehension of the process of landscapemdking by the instrumentalities of the Creator, is necessary in order successfully to conduct the process of landscape painting by the feeble instrumentalities of man. And what is necessary to the painter, is in some degree to the critic, whose proper task is to reproduce and ex plain, in so far as he is able, the work of the artist, and compare it with the living landscape. A knowledge of the roughening and the smoothing of the earth, by the powers which haunt its sunless caverns, and toil and contend upon its face, is evidently essential in order to an intelligent perception of that face, as we behold it. To the artist who would truthfully picture it, cer tainly, indispensable knowledge. Without that, his work cannot have the expression and significance of the actual - cannot have that organic unity - cannot have that all-pervading life, energy, and beauty which conspire to make it a genuine creation of art, in contra distinction to the work of the mere mechanic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
| Author | : Frederic Edwin Church |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Landscape drawing |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Eleanor Jones Harvey |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780300095364 |
Twelve days after the onset of the American Civil War in April of 1861, Frederic Edwin Church, the most successful American landscape painter of his day, debuted his latest “Great Picture”—a painting titled The North. Despite favorable reviews, the painting failed to find a buyer. Faced with this unexpected setback, Church added a broken mast to the foreground and changed the work’s title to The Icebergs. He then shipped the painting to London, where it was finally sold to an English railroad magnate and subsequently disappeared from view for 116 years. This beautiful book tells the fascinating story of The Icebergs and provides a detailed look at the cycle of fame, neglect, and resuscitation of both this masterwork and Church’s career. In 1979, The Icebergs sold at auction for $2.5 million, at the time the highest amount ever paid for an American painting. The sale coincided with an upswing in the popularity and acclaim accorded to American landscape painting, catalyzing the market for American art and contributing to a revival in the prestige of Church and the Hudson River School. Drawing on extensive interviews with many of the people involved with the painting’s rediscovery, sale, and eventual donation to the Dallas Museum of Art, the author considers the way marketing has defined The Icebergs.
| Author | : Alexander von Humboldt |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2010-07-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0226360687 |
The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, and inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Church. The chronicles of the expedition were published in Paris after Humboldt’s return, and first among them was the 1807 “Essay on the Geography of Plants.” Among the most cited writings in natural history, after the works of Darwin and Wallace, this work appears here for the first time in a complete English-language translation. Covering far more than its title implies, it represents the first articulation of an integrative “science of the earth, ” encompassing most of today’s environmental sciences. Ecologist Stephen T. Jackson introduces the treatise and explains its enduring significance two centuries after its publication.
| Author | : Eleanor Jones Harvey |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2020-04-14 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0691200807 |
The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021
| Author | : Linda Bergquist |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2009-10-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0470383178 |
A design-thinking book for planting or redesigning churches and incubating a new generation of leaders. Written by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr, two experienced church planters and mentors, the book is full of wisdom, practical advice, and creative counsel. Instead of a business-model-as-usual approach, the authors challenge readers to begin with the raw materials of beliefs, values, individuals, teams, and culture, and to then move outwards to draw from a rich palette of real and potential church paradigms. This book is meant to provoke church leaders to think outside of the box and to imagine how their churches might better reflect the image and the mission of God in the world. Contains a wealth of illustrative examples, charts, and other visual aides Offers a creative practical perspective and a multi-disciplinary approach to establishing a new church or leading an existing one Shows how to honor a church's purpose while embracing its unique culture Includes important lessons for nurturing church leadership skills
