Ocean flowers : impressions from nature

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Ocean flowers : impressions from nature

edited by Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher

Drawing Center , Princeton University Press, 2004

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"The Drawing Center, New York, N.Y., March 26-May 22, 2004, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., June 12-August 8, 2004" -- T. p. verso

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内容説明

A work of stunning beauty, "Ocean Flowers" explores a little-known moment of exhilarating artistic experimentation. The book focuses on natural-history imagery in the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on botanical drawings and photograms by the artist Anna Atkins (1799-1871) and her Victorian contemporaries. Besides providing a feast for the eyes, the book illuminates intriguing shifts in the way the natural world was represented. In the mid 1800s, the advent of photography provided new possibilities, generating as much creative fervor as digital media have in recent years. In addition to hand-made drawings, hand-colored prints, nature prints (direct imprints from plants), and natural illustrations (real specimens mounted on the page), artists began making photogenic drawings (as William Henry Fox Talbot first dubbed his early photographs) to record botanical specimens. A kind of "drawing with light," this new art form complemented, rather than superceded, the other forms of graphic media. Far from rendering conventional approaches obsolete, it encouraged experimentation with all kinds of media. "Ocean Flowers" demonstrates how this concept of "fluidity" in crossing the traditional borders between media is paralleled in the contemporary art world. Replete with 200 color illustrations, the book accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by the Drawing Center in New York City in association with the Yale Center for British Art. More than just an exhibition catalog, it includes essays by the coeditors, as well as by the artist Craigie Horsfield and scholars Edward Eigen, Elaine Scarry, and Kathryn Tuma.

目次

Plates 7 Ocean Flowers and Their Drawings 69 Introduction Acknowledgments by Catherine de Zegher Cameraless 87 Fron Natural Illustrations and Nature Prints to Manual and Photogentic Drawings and Other Botanographs by Carol Armstrong World and Word 181 by Craigie Horsfield The Victorian "Book of Nature" 215 Modeling, Mimesis, and the Community of Forms by Kathryn A. Tuma Imaging Flowers 243 Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium) by Elaine Scarey On Purple and the Genesis of Photography 271 or the Natural History of an Exposure by Eedward Eigen Plates 289

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