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The Mountains In Art History' Is The First English-language Work To Focus On The Mountains As Subject Matter And Source Of Aesthetic And Spiritual Inspiration For Painters. This Collection Of Original Essays Is Written Entirely By Wesleyan University Students Of Art History. The Essays Examine How Artistic Representation Of Mountains Has Varied Through The Lens Of Specific Depictions In English And American Literature, And Consider How Images Of Mountains Functioned In Conjunction With Religion, The Sublime, And Romanticism. These Essays By Student Authors Adeptly Ruminate On Works By Individuals Such As William Wordsworth, John Frederick Kensett, Alexander Van Humboldt, Emil Nolde, And Arnold Fanck. Includes An Introduction By Professor Peter Mark And A Helpful Appendix Of The Course Syllabus And Narrative Description. Introduction: Coming Round Again / Peter Mark -- Mountains In Italian Renaissance Depictions Of The Sacrifice Of Isaac / Penny Snyder -- Analyzing Frederic Church's The Heart Of The Andes With Joseph Addison's Neoclassical And Prototypical Theory Of Artistic Criticism / Matthew Kim -- Wordsworth's Alps / Elizabeth Deatrick -- John Ruskin, Turner, And The Romantic Pu

Who reads The Mountains in Art History?

Author

Mark, Peter; Helman, Peter; Snyder, Penny

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780819577290

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Arts