The Abstraction of Landscape: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism - Hardcover

Dietmar, Elgar; Rosenblum, Robert; Gallati, Barbara Dayer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8489935750 ISBN 13: 9788489935754

Publisher: Editorial de Arte y Ciencia, S.A., 2008

Synopsis

The 19th-century landscape and the Romantic tradition of Northern Europe as the origin of modern abstraction is the thesis of this exhibition catalogue, which seeks to visually demonstrate, through the works of the great masters, the evolution of the Romantic landscape in modern art, up to and including its ultimate abstraction in American Abstract Expressionism. Inspired by the premise of the celebrated art historian Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006), it includes 124 works by 26 European and American artists from Caspar David Friedrich to Mark Rothko, as well as the contemporary artists Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer. The works exhibited come from more than 20 European and American museums as well as private collections.

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Synopsis

This book presents over 100 works by 25 European and American artists, from Caspar David Friedrich to Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. The book reveals through the works of great masters, the evolution of the Romantic landscape throughout modern times to its progressive abstraction by the American Abstract Expressionists and contemporary European artists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Editorial de Arte y Ciencia, S.A.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8489935750
• ISBN 13: 9788489935754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 271