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PublisherMcmullen Museum of Art, Boston College

ISBN-10189285029X

ISBN-139781892850294

eBay Product ID (ePID)10038555500

Product Key Features

Number of Pages225 Pages

Publication NameNature's Mirror : Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

SubjectSubjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, Techniques / Drawing, European

TypeTextbook

AuthorJeffery W. Howe

Subject AreaArt

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight50.7 Oz

Item Length1.2 in

Item Width1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-943532

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal758/.1493

Table Of ContentPREFACE HISTORICAL OUTLINE AND MAP NATURE'S MIRROR: REALITY AND SYMBOL IN BELGIAN LANDSCAPE HENRI DE BRAEKELEER AND BELGIAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN THE 1870S AND 1880S "BELGIUM IS AN INDUSTRIALIST": PRIDE AND EXPLOITATION IN THE BLACK COUNTRY, 1850-1900 FERNAND KHNOPFF'S LANDSCAPES: NATURE AS MIRROR "AND THE CLOUDS STAGNATE ON THE WATER'S FACE": BRUGES AS A CROSS-ROADS OF EUROPEAN SYMBOLISM SERRES CHAUDES: INSIDE-OUTSIDE, OUTSIDE-INSIDE THE FOUR SEASONS OF LÉON SPILLIAERT'S MIND PLATES CONTRIBUTORS

SynopsisSince the Renaissance, art in Belgium and the Netherlands has been known for its innovations in realistic representation and its fluency in symbolism. New market forces and artistic concerns fueled the development of landscape as an independent genre in Belgium in the sixteenth century, and landscape emerged as a major focus for nineteenth-century realist and symbolist artists. Nature's Mirror , and the exhibition it accompanies, traces these landmark developments with a rich array of seldom-seen works. Nature's Mirror presents its collection of prints and drawings in chronological order, exploring the evolving dialogue between subjective experience and the external world from the Renaissance through the First World War. Essays by American and Belgian specialists examine artists within the regional, political, and industrial contexts that strongly influenced them. Featuring more than one hundred works, many from the leading private collection of Belgian art in America, the Hearn Family Trust, Nature's Mirror explores the evolution of Belgian art in this fruitful period with remarkable lucidity and detail.

LC Classification NumberND1359.N38 2017