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Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape : Revised and Expanded Second Edition.

In the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditional role as background to its new place as the focal point of a picture. His paintings, drawings, and etchings appeared almost without warning and mysteriously disappeared from view just as suddenly. In Albrecht A...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wood, Christopher S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Reaktion Books, 2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape; Imprint Page; Contents; 1. Independent Landscape; Where Landscape could Appear; Landscape and Text; Landscape as Parergon or By-Work; 2. Frame and Work; The German Artist's Career; Subject and Setting; The Landscape Study; 3. The German Forest; Two-Dimensional Pleasures; Germania Illustrata; Outdoor Worship; Wanderer, Traveller; 4. Topography and Fiction; The Topographical Drawing; Style in Altdorfer's Pen-and-Ink Landscapes; 5. The Published Landscape; Altdorfer's Public; 'Printed Drawings'; Order and Disorder
  • Afterword to the Second EditionReferences; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Checklist of Landscapes; Index