| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and culture |
|
University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture.
|
| Contents |
Atlantic purgatory -- Latrobe in a European context -- A solitary traveler in the American woods -- Learning to read the stones -- Stage tricks for landscape -- performing spaces -- Castles in the air -- Illusions of selfhood |
| Summary |
"Winner of College Art Association's Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe's substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe's Virginian watercolors, including a series of complex trompe l'oeil studies and three significant illustrated manuscripts. Though Latrobe's architecture is well known, his watercolors have received little critical attention. Epic Landscapes rediscovers Latrobe's watercolors as an ambitious body of work and reconsiders the close relationship between the visual and spatial sensibility of these images and his architectural designs. It also offers a fresh analysis of Latrobe within the context of creative practice in the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century as he explored contemporary ideas concerning the form of art for Republican society and the social impacts of revolution."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
|
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2020) |
| Subject |
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
|
| SUBJECT |
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 fast |
| Subject |
Landscape painting -- United States -- 18th century
|
|
Watercolor painting -- United States -- 18th century
|
|
ART -- History -- General.
|
|
Landscape painting
|
|
Watercolor painting
|
|
United States
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781644531617 |
|
1644531615 |
|
