Research Catalog

Title

• Light! : the industrial age 1750-1900 : art & science, technology & society / Andreas Blühm, Louise Lippincott.

Author

Blühm, Andreas

Publication

Amsterdam : Van Gogh Museum ; Pittsburgh : Carnegie Musuem of Art ; [London] : Thames and Hudson, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Carnegie Museum of Art
• Lippincott, Louise, 1953-
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Description

271 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Of all the revolutionary changes brought about by the Industrial Age perhaps the most extraordinary and far-reaching was the transformation of light. Scientists described its hidden laws to the general public for the first time. Artists found radical ways of depicting it. Inventors found new ways of making it. The lives of ordinary people changed forever as streets, shops, theatres, even their own homes were brilliantly illuminated, first by gas, and then, even more dazzlingly, by electricity." "The story is told here for the first time in its entirety. The book describes the inventions still with us, such as electric light, the microscope and photography, as well as arcane reminders of a vanished world, such as the heliostat, the lithophane and the magic lantern. It portrays a revolution in the arts: the impressionists conjuring up sunlight, Constable redefining daylight, Caspar David Friedrich discovering twilight. And it debates the changing symbolism of light: the meaning of the Enlightenment, the light of God's truth, the nightmarish light of factory furnaces by night."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Light > Exhibitions
• Light in art > Exhibitions
• Light sources > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "This book is published to coincide with the exhibition Light! the Industrial Age, 1750-1900. Art & Science, Technology & Society at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (20 October 2000-11 February 2001) and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (6 April-29 July 2001)"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-267) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0880390409

OCLC

1243815029

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library