The Long Picturesque, or Unraveling the Rules of Art

by Patricia Emison

This book provides a Renaissance art historian's view of how the picturesque aesthetic developed from roots in the sixteenth century (mostly in painting, but with ramifications for printmaking, landscape design, and architecture), and further, how the picturesque aesthetic fundamentally changed the relationship between art and nature, between viewer and image. The book's argument is based on wide reading of obscure yet piquant critical texts, mostly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303166700X
• ISBN13: 9783031667008
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"