Elegy landscapes : Constable and Turner and the intimate sublime / Stanley Plumly.
Edition: First editionDescription: pages cmISBN: 9780393651508Subject(s): Constable, John, 1776-1837 -- Criticism and interpretation | Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation | Landscape painting, English -- 19th century | Sublime, The, in artDDC classification: 759.2 LOC classification: ND497. | C7P59 2018Summary: "Following his 'obsessive, intricate, intimate, and brilliant' (Washington Post) work in Posthumous Keats and The Immortal Evening, renowned poet Stanley Plumly further explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. How is it that this disparate pair will come to be regarded as Britain's supreme landscape painters, precursors to Impressionism and Modernism? How did each painter's life influence his work? Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these talented 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-angle look at the philosophy of the sublime"--| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Fischer Hall Library Main shelves | ND497. C7P59 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Donated by Daniel Johnson, Beth Lau, and Greg Kucich, co-organizers of the Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats conference, Summer 2018 | B013717 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Following his 'obsessive, intricate, intimate, and brilliant' (Washington Post) work in Posthumous Keats and The Immortal Evening, renowned poet Stanley Plumly further explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. How is it that this disparate pair will come to be regarded as Britain's supreme landscape painters, precursors to Impressionism and Modernism? How did each painter's life influence his work? Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling from personal tragedy, these talented 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-angle look at the philosophy of the sublime"--