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Book Picturesque Great Britain

Download or read book Picturesque Great Britain written by Emil Otto Hoppé and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain

Download or read book The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain written by Thomas Allen and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Technologies of the Picturesque

Download or read book Technologies of the Picturesque written by Ron Broglio and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With considerable learning and insight, Broglio reveals how artists are both complicit with such objectification of nature, and at other moments work toward a more vivid connection to the environment."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Search for the Picturesque

Download or read book The Search for the Picturesque written by Malcolm Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Picturesque Europe

Download or read book Picturesque Europe written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Visual Planning and the Picturesque

Download or read book Visual Planning and the Picturesque written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner, much of which was published as journal articles in the Architectural Review in the 1940s and 1950s during Pevsner's term as editor.

Book Inquiry Into the Picturesque

Download or read book Inquiry Into the Picturesque written by Sidney K. Robinson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-08-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aesthetic mode of the picturesque has undergone so many transformations since its initial discussion in eighteenth-century England that it is hard to say just what it is. In these probing essays, Sidney K. Robinson re-examines the picturesque in its late eighteenth-century phase.

Book Picturesque Europe

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1876
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Picturesque Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ireland and the Picturesque

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  • Author : Finola O'Kane
  • Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9780300185386
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ireland and the Picturesque written by Finola O'Kane and published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliché, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted, and manipulated during the long 18th century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque's development and argues for a far greater degree of Irish influence on the course of European landscape theory and design. Positioned off-axis from the greater force-field, and off-shore from mainland Europe and America, where better to cultivate the oblique perspective? This book charts the creation of picturesque Ireland, while exploring in detail the role and reach of landscape painting in the planning, publishing, landscaping and design of Ireland's historic landscapes, towns, and tourist routes. Thus it is also a history of the physical shaping of Ireland as a tourist destination, one of the earliest, most calculated, and most successful in the world. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Book The Ports  Harbours  Watering places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol  2

Download or read book The Ports Harbours Watering places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol 2 written by William Finden and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book England  Picturesque and Descriptive

Download or read book England Picturesque and Descriptive written by Joel Cook and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Eye for the Tropics

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  • Author : Krista A. Thompson
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2007-03-15
  • ISBN : 0822388561
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book An Eye for the Tropics written by Krista A. Thompson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.

Book Impressed by Light

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  • Author : Roger Taylor
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 1588392252
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Impressed by Light written by Roger Taylor and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography emerged in 1839 in two forms simultaneously. In France, Louis Daguerre produced photographs on silvered sheets of copper, while in Great Britain, William Henry Fox Talbot put forward a method of capturing an image on ordinary writing paper treated with chemicals. Talbot’s invention, a paper negative from which any number of positive prints could be made, became the progenitor of virtually all photography carried out before the digital age. Talbot named his perfected invention "calotype," a term based on the Greek word for beauty. Calotypes were characterized by a capacity for subtle tonal distinctions, massing of light and shadow, and softness of detail. In the 1840s, amateur photographers in Britain responded with enthusiasm to the challenges posed by the new medium. Their subjects were wide-ranging, including landscapes and nature studies, architecture, and portraits. Glass-negative photography, which appeared in 1851, was based on the same principles as the paper negative but yielded a sharper picture, and quickly gained popularity. Despite the rise of glass negatives in commercial photography, many gentlemen of leisure and learning continued to use paper negatives into the 1850s and 1860s. These amateurs did not seek the widespread distribution and international reputation pursued by their commercial counterparts, nearly all of whom favored glass negatives. As a result, many of these calotype works were produced in a small number of prints for friends and fellow photographers or for a family album. This richly illustrated, landmark publication tells the first full history of the calotype, embedding it in the context of Britain’s changing fortunes, intricate class structure, ever-growing industrialization, and the new spirit under Queen Victoria. Of the 118 early photographs presented here in meticulously printed plates, many have never before been published or exhibited.

Book England s 100 Best Views

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  • Author : Simon Jenkins
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2013-10-03
  • ISBN : 1847659489
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book England s 100 Best Views written by Simon Jenkins and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England's views are remarkable for their beauty and variety. With his usual insight and authority, bestselling author Simon Jenkins picks 100 of the very best from the white cliffs of Dover to Hadrian's Wall - and explains the fascinating stories behind each. Jenkins' entertaining and erudite entries provide the rich historical, geographical, botanical and architectural background to breathtaking sights - all beautifully illustrated - both iconic and undiscovered. From Gold Hill, the Dorset village street so famously picturesque it was used in a Hovis advert, to the view of the City of London famously depicted by Canaletto and the wilds of the Yorkshire moors. This book will inspire you to discover the treasures of England's sea, city and landscapes for yourself. Filled with roman roads, cliff-tops, follies, mountains, ancient castles, rolling forests and heart-stopping moments, you'll soon wonder how you chose walks, mini-breaks or spontaneous diversions without it. The perfect guide to Britain's landscape - now available in paperback.

Book Picturesque and Sublime

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Barringer
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300233531
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Picturesque and Sublime written by Tim Barringer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is widely acknowledged as the founder of American landscape painting. Born in England, Cole emigrated in 1818 to the United States, where he transformed British and continental European traditions to create a distinctive American idiom. He embraced the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. Including striking paintings and a broad range of works on paper, from watercolors to etchings, mezzotints, aquatints, engravings, and lithographs, this book explores the trans-Atlantic context for Cole's oeuvre. These works chart a history of landscape aesthetics and demonstrate the essential role of prints as agents of artistic transmission. The authors offer new interpretations of work by Cole and the British artists who influenced him, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, revealing Cole's debt to artistic traditions as he formulated a profound new category in art. the American sublime.