In Search of the Promised Land: Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church

Carr, Gerald L.

ISBN 10: 1584651261 / ISBN 13: 9781584651260

Published by Univ Pr of New England, 2001

Seller Inventory # 1584651261-VB

Synopsis:

In this lavishly illustrated new study, Gerald Carr focuses on several aspects of the life and art of Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900): his individuality, his absorption with the natural sciences, and his lifelong zest for travel. Two introductory chapters prepare the reader for the five chapters organized around the geographical regions where Church traveled and resided, and which he depicted in his paintings: North and South America, the Arctic, the Mediterranean and Europe, and upstate New York. Carr's approaches to Church via his biography and his artistic individuality are essentially new to art-historical literature, as are his correlations of Church's art with 19th century conceptions of geography, and with contemporary music and operatic performance. This informative volume represents the latest in Church and art history scholarship.

Review: "Gerald Carr has produced a sweeping and thoughtful look at the work of this major artist of the Hudson River school by examining Church in the context of his time. He has penned an in-depth study of the scientific advances and exploration of exotic lands that were a preoccupation of the literati in the nineteenth century and provided Church with subject matter in such distant places as the Near East, South America, and Antarctica. The canvases Church painted of those far-flung locales are among his most beautiful and profound works, and Carr's new approach to interpreting them is an important contribution to the existing literature on one of the most highly regarded painters of the period." -- The Magazine Antiques

Bibliographic Details

Title: In Search of the Promised Land: Paintings by...
Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: paperback
Condition: As New