Research Catalog

Title

The book of the wind : the representation of the invisible / Alessandro Nova.

Author

Nova, Alessandro, 1954-

Publication

Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

223 p. : ill. (some col.); 33 cm.

Uniform Title

Libro del vento. English

Alternative Title

Libro del vento.

Subjects

• Winds in art
• Art > Themes, motives

Note

• Translation of: Il libro del vento, published Milano: Ultreya, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-221) and index.

Contents

Theme -- The Iconography of the Wind -- The Ancient World -- Myth -- The wind as personification and allegory -- Life and death: The wind and its sepulchral connotation -- The Christian and Medieval World -- Sources -- Biblical images -- Angels and winds -- Demonic winds -- The cosmology of Hildegard -- The Modern Era and Mythographers -- The Wind as a Phenomenon in Art Theory Between Allegory and Metaphor for the Passions -- The Wind as Phenomenon -- The Albertian turn -- Leonardo da Vinci -- The Wind as Allegory, Symbol, and Metaphor -- The allegories of Botticelli -- Symbols, metaphors, and moods -- Rubens and Poussin -- Storms and shipwrecks in seventeenth-century Dutch painting -- The Sublime -- The Concept -- Vernet and Diderot -- Caspar David Friedrich -- Constable and Turner -- The "American Sublime" & Hollywood -- 1932 -- 2005 -- Duchamp, Calder, and Rickey -- Chillida -- Walter De Maria's Lightning Field -- Video art and installations -- The Wind as Sign -- Diagrams and Wind Roses -- Signs of Synoptic Meteorology

Call Number

JQG 12-180

ISBN

• 9780773538337
• 077353833X

OCLC

667805562

Author

Nova, Alessandro, 1954-

Title

The book of the wind : the representation of the invisible / Alessandro Nova.

Imprint

Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-221) and index.

Research Call Number

JQG 12-180