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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
486 kr
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A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis Against a backdrop of industrialization and scientific development that reshaped humanity’s relationship to the planet, nineteenth-century artists and writers began to express a novel perception of humanity’s place in, and impact on, the natural world. This essential volume traces, in art and literature, the growing understanding of the industrial world’s effect on the environment. It features works from both sides of the Atlantic, including paintings, photographs, scientific illustrations, and books by Mary Hunter Austin, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, John Constable, Henry David Thoreau, and Carleton Watkins. These are discussed by experts, including artists, art and literary historians, scientists, environmental activists, and representatives of Indigenous knowledge. Examining a nascent environmental awareness through the intersection of art and science, contributors highlight this intertwined historical dialogue and what it can tell us about today’s climate crisis. The title references lectures by the Victorian writer John Ruskin, in which he described how decades of observing the English skies led him to conclude that his own age had created a disturbing “storm-cloud”—smog caused by burning coal. Though he wouldn’t have understood it in this way, his lectures became one of the earliest published considerations of human-caused climate change. Published in association with the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Exhibition Schedule: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens(September 14, 2024–January 6, 2025)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
361 kr
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Presenting Kehinde Wiley’s hotly anticipated response to a legendary Gainsborough portraitThis volume presents A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, a new portrait by Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), commissioned to mark the centennial of the acquisition of Blue Boy by Henry and Arabella Huntington. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens places Wiley's painting in conversation with Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century masterpiece. A deep connection exists between the museum’s most famous painting and the artist who is known for creating one of the most beloved presidential portraits of our time. A native of Los Angeles, Wiley has often spoken about his childhood visits to the Huntington’s British portrait gallery and how they inspired him to become an artist.Richly illustrated with portraits by Wiley and by 18th-century masters such as Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Hudson, this book offers insight into the evolving history of portraiture and the representation of power. An essay by Malik Gaines, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, investigates Wiley’s postmodern strategy of inserting Black subjects into canonical European settings. An essay by fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell situates Wiley’s work within the traditions and trappings of 18th-century grand manner portraiture.