Fire and Ice: Treasures from the Photographic Collection of Frederic Church at Olana (The Olana Collection) - Hardcover

Fels, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801440815 ISBN 13: 9780801440816

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2002

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Book by Fels Thomas

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"A dramatic story about visuality in the arts and how ideas of the world changed when photography was invented. . . . This book is one of the best exhibition catalogs I have seen in a long time. The reproductions are superb and despite its historical nature it speaks to contemporary issues regarding the dialogue between painting and photography."-Leonardo "Fire and Ice provides an excellent introduction to the Church photography collection . . . , as well as to Olana as a Historic Site. . . . It opens up the whole issue of Orientalizing in the American nineteenth century."-Linnea S. Dietrich, Miami University, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 4:1, 2003 "This handsome catalogue reproduces examples from the Olana collections of this work as well as that of less notable practitioners. Fels contends that the photographs served Church in a variety of ways: as a source of inspiration, a reminder of favorite places, a form of surrogate travel, and as a reference aid to architectural and natural form. His argument is visually supported by the thoughtful arrangement of illustrations; in particular, the technique of placing Church's paintings opposite photographs from the artist's collection."-Peggy Ann Kusnerz, History of Photography, Summer 2003.

Reseña del editor

Frederic Church (1826-1900), who gained international renown for paintings such as Niagara (1857), Heart of the Andes (1859), Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), and The Icebergs (1861), was inspired by his extensive travel and study. His work was also informed by his appreciation of a new visual medium. Fire and Ice, a selection from the several thousand photographs and daguerreotypes Church collected at Olana, his Orientalist home on the Hudson River, provides insight into the interests and taste of one of nineteenth-century America's greatest painters. Church was a boy of thirteen when the invention of photography was announced to the world. As a painter, he was of the first generation to grow up with photographs and consider them a useful adjunct to his work. Church collected photographs and daguerreotypes by early pioneers of the art, including Desire Charnay, Eadweard Muybridge, and Carleton Watkins. His collection appears to have served largely as a source of inspiration and armchair travel, reminding him of favorite locations and details of architecture, culture, and landscape. In Fire and Ice, images from Church's collection are shown along with a selection of his own oil sketches, drawings, and archival materials. Some of the photographs are devoted to the varied geographical interests reflected in Church's art and travels: Central and South America, the Middle East, and the polar North. Others served as visual reference for the design and construction of Olana. Lavishly illustrated, Fire & Ice shows how the photographs in Church's collection echoed the principal stages of the painter's career.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0801440815
• ISBN 13: 9780801440816
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80