Rooms with a view : the open window in the 19th century / Sabine Rewald.

Main entry:

Rewald, Sabine, author.

Title & Author:

Rooms with a view : the open window in the 19th century / Sabine Rewald.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 190 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 5-July 4, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-186) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Reflections on the Open Window -- Catalogue -- Paintings -- Drawings and Watercolors.

Summary:

During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian painting and drawing. "Rooms with a View" is the first book to explore this intriguing theme in European art, with its Romantic intimations of unfulfilled longing and its associated qualities of poetry, luminosity, and interiority. Artists depicted this intangible mood with images of contemplative figures in hushed, sparsely furnished rooms; painters diligently at work in their studios; simple, serene displays of light entering a chamber; and windows as the focal point of views in their own right. "Rooms with a View" features forty oils and thirty works on paper by both well-known and largely undiscovered artists, including Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Adolph Menzel, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Martinus Rorbye, Jean Alaux, Leon Cogniet, and Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy.

ISBN:

9780300169775 (pbk. ; Yale University Press)
0300169779 (pbk. ; Yale University Press)
9781588394132 (pbk. ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1588394131 (pbk. ; The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Subject:

Windows in art Exhibitions.
Painting, European 19th century Exhibitions.
Fenêtres dans l'art Expositions.
Peinture européenne 19e siècle Expositions.
20.21 iconographic themes.
Painting, European.
Windows in art.
Malerei
Zeichnung
Fenster
Blick
Kunst
Iconografie.
Vensters.
Schilderijen.
Fönster i konsten.
Europeisk målarkonst 1800-talet utställningskataloger.
Modern konst teman och motiv 1800-talet utställningskataloger.
1800-1899

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Tentoonstellingscatalogi (vorm)
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Open window in the 19th century

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274382
Call No.: BIB 208107
Status: Available

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