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Examines the many ways artists have portrayed both turbulent and calm weather conditions in marine and landscape paintings, drawings, and prints. This book places emphasis on the artist's observation and experience of weather and climate, as well as on works which use calm seas, storms, and tempests as symbol and metaphor.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments / Carolyn HillThe Moralization of Shipwreck, ca. 1770-1830 / Geoffrey QuilleyElemental Strife and Sublime Transcendence: Tempest and Disaster in Western Painting, ca. 1650-1850 / Lawrence O. GoeddeA Search for the "Turneresque" in Nineteenth-Century Storm Painting / Hardy S. GeorgeConfronting the Tempest: Observational Authority in Marine Painting / Daniel FinamoreThe Eye of the Storm: Symbols and Expressions in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Art / Mark D. MitchellExhibition ChecklistBibliography

Tempests and Romantic Visionaries

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      Publisher: Oklahoma City Museum of Art
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/04/2006
      ISBN13: 9780911919042, 978-0911919042
      ISBN10: 091191904X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines the many ways artists have portrayed both turbulent and calm weather conditions in marine and landscape paintings, drawings, and prints. This book places emphasis on the artist's observation and experience of weather and climate, as well as on works which use calm seas, storms, and tempests as symbol and metaphor.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction and Acknowledgments / Carolyn HillThe Moralization of Shipwreck, ca. 1770-1830 / Geoffrey QuilleyElemental Strife and Sublime Transcendence: Tempest and Disaster in Western Painting, ca. 1650-1850 / Lawrence O. GoeddeA Search for the "Turneresque" in Nineteenth-Century Storm Painting / Hardy S. GeorgeConfronting the Tempest: Observational Authority in Marine Painting / Daniel FinamoreThe Eye of the Storm: Symbols and Expressions in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Art / Mark D. MitchellExhibition ChecklistBibliography

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