Research Catalog

Title

The abstraction of landscape : from northern romanticism to abstract expressionism.

Publication

Madrid : Fundación Juan March : Editorial de Arte y Ciencia, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rosenblum, Robert
• Fundación Juan March

Description

271 p. : chiefly col. ill. (2 folded); 34 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Abstraction of landscape. English.

Subject

• Friedrich, Caspar David, 1774-1840
• Turner, J. M. W. 1775-1851
• Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848
• Constable, John, 1776-1837
• Munch, Edvard, 1863-1944
• Klee, Paul, 1879-1940
• Gottlieb, Adolph, 1903-1974
• Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
• Richter, Gerhard, 1932-
• Kiefer, Anselm, 1945-
• 1800-1899
• Landscape painting > Europe > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Art > Europe, Northern > Exhibitions
• Romanticism in art > Europe, Northern > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Abstract expressionism > Europe > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Peinture de paysages > Europe > 19e siècle > Expositions
• Art > Europe septentrionale > Expositions
• Romantisme dans l'art > Europe septentrionale > 19e siècle > Expositions
• Expressionnisme abstrait > Europe > 19e siècle > Expositions
• Romanticism in art > 19th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• This catalogue, and its Spanish edition, were published on the occasion of the exhibition The Abstraction of Landscape: From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, October 5, 2007 - January 13, 2008.
• "In Memoriam, Robert Rosenblum (1927-2006)."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The parts and the whole / Werner Hofmann -- The Romantic landscape of Northern Europe from Friedrich to Constable. At the cradle of Romanticism : Caspar David Friedrich's Seasons of 1803 / Hein-Th. Schulze Altcappenberg -- North America: the nature of the sublime from Cole to Bierstadt. The American landscape and the mutable sublime / Barbara Dayer Gallati -- The Northern Romantic tradition and abstraction: landscape between the centuries, from van Gogh to Ernst -- The spirit of landscape and total abstraction from Newman to Rothko. The abstract sublime / Robert Rosenblum -- Mark Rothko's "The romantics were prompted..." / Introduction by Miguel López-Remiro -- The Post-Romantic landscape: Kiefer, Richter -- Anselm Kiefer : German landscape, universal spitir / Cordula Meier -- Gerhard Richter : Blurry Landscapes / Dietmar Elger -- Epilogue: Interview with Robert Rosenblum -- Appendix: Imaginatio Borealis: a cultural topography of "Northernness" / Berhnhard Teuber, Olaf Mörke, Victor Andrés Ferretti.

ISBN

• 8489935750 (English: Editorial de Arte y Ciencia)
• 9788489935754 (English: Editorial de Arte y Ciencia)
• 8470755498 (English: Fundación Juan March)
• 9788470755491 (English: Fundación Juan March)

OCLC

• 224519315
• SCSB-10092232

Owning Institutions

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