Research Catalog

Title

The sun : source of light in art / catalog: Michael Philipp ; edited by Ortrud Westheider, Michael Philipp and Daniel Zamani.

Publication

• Munich : Prestel Verlag, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Philipp, Michael.
• Westheider, Ortrud.
• Zamani, Daniel.
• his Musée Marmottan.
• his isb Museum Barberini.

Description

288 pages : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

For as long as humans have been making art, they have turned to the sun as the source of light, warmth and life itself. It appears as a symbol of limitless power, as the personification of gods and of Christ, and as a harbinger of change. Artists have also used the sun as a means of exploring light and color and as an entrée into discussions about climate. The first of its kind, this book investigates visual representations of the sun from antiquity to the present day. It is divided into seven roughly chronological sections that look at both epoch-spanning and period specific examples, including symbolic, allegorical representations, the iconography of mythological subjects, and mimetic qualities such as typology, phenomenology, and emotional effect. It includes more than two hundred stunning reproductions of well- and lesser-known works of art. Incisive and enlightening texts explore how solar symbolism figured in pre-Christian objects; through 17th-century depictions of the ?Sun King? Louis XIV; how artists such as Rubens and Monet employed the sun in their narrative paintings; how the Impressionists first investigated the sun?s effects on a landscape; how Neo-Impressionists such as Seurat experimented with color, based on the Newtonian analysis of the solar spectrum; and how 20th-century artists incorporated a broad array of abstract, surrealistic, and transformative modes of solar representation into a variety of media.00Exhibition: Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany (25.02. - 11.06.2023).

Subject

• cultuurgeschiedenis
• beeldende kunst
• zon
• zonsondergangen
• zonsverduisteringen
• astronomie
• ART / History / General
• Sun > In art
• Sun

Genre/Form

• Art.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalogue of an exhibition held at musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, 14 September 2022-29 January 2023; and at Museum Barberini, Potsdam, 25 February-11 June 2023.
• Also published in French by Éditions Hazan, ©2022, under the title: Face au soleil : un astre dans les arts; and in German by Prestel Verlag, ©2023, under the title: Sonne : die Quelle des Lichts in der Kunst.
• "Published in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of Monet's 1872 painting, Sunrise, this unique and illuminating exhibition catalog reaches throughout history to explore how artist have incorporated the sun as a reference point and as inspiration in their art.For as long as humans have been making art, they have turned to the sun as the source of light, warmth and life itself. It appears as a symbol of limitless power, as the personification of gods and of Christ, and as a harbinger of change. Artists have also used the sun as a means of exploring light and color and as an entrée into discussions about climate.The first of its kind, this catalog investigates visual representations of the sun from antiquity to the present day. It is divided into seven roughly chronological sections that look at both epoch-spanning and period specific examples, including symbolic, allegorical representations, the iconography of mythological subjects, and mimetic qualities such as typology, phenomenology, and emotional effect. It includes more than two hundred stunning reproductions of well- and lesser-known works.Incisive and enlightening texts explore how solar symbolism figured in pre-Christian objects through 17th-century depictions of the "Sun King" Louix XIV; how artists such as Rubens and Monet employed the sun in their narrative paintings; how the Impressionists first investigated the sun's effects on a landscape; how Neo-Impressionist such as Seurat experimented with color based on the Newtonian analysis of the solar spectrum; and how 20th-century artists incorporated a broad array of abstract, surrealistic, and transformative modes of solar representation into a variety of media."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English.

Call Number

N8251.S6

ISBN

• 9783791379654
• 3791379658
• 9783791390925 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783791390918 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783791379647 (canceled/invalid)
• 9782754112864 (canceled/invalid)
• 2754112863 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301324931

OCLC

• on1381137185
• 1381137185
• SCSB-14594053

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries