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Book SynopsisExamines 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 ContentsIntroduction 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
