Peasant Scenes And Landscapes

"In Peasant Scenes and Landscapes, Larry Silver examines the emergence of pictorial kinds - scenes of taverns and markets, landscapes and peasants - and charts their evolution as genres from initial hybrids to more conventionalized artistic formulas. The relationship of these new genres and their favorite themes is linked to cultural issues of ultimate significance and reflects a burgeoning urbanism and capitalism in Antwerp. Silver analyzes how pictorial genres and the Antwerp marketplace fostered the development of what has come to be known as "signature" artistic style. By examining Bosch and Bruegel, together with their imitators, he focuses on pictorial innovation as well as the marketing of individual styles, attending particularly to the growing practice of artists signing their works. In addition, he argues that consumer interest in the style of individual artists reinforced another phenomenon of the later sixteenth century: art collecting. While today we take such typical artistic formulas as commonplace, along with their frequent use of identifying signatures (a Rothko, a Pollock), Peasant Scenes and Landscapes shows how these developed simultaneously in the commercial world of early modern Antwerp."--Jacket.

המשפט הראשון: Modern viewers of art take for granted the conventional formulas of easel paintings that adhere to expectations of pictorial genre, such as landscape or "genre" painting (scenes of "daily life" and "ordinary" people).

שנה

2005

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of Pennsylvania Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

373

ISBN

9780812238686

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata