Umfang:
111 Seiten
ISBN:
9781911408833
,
1911408836
Inhalt:
This book reveals a thread of unsettling takes on the British landscape stretching from paintings, prints and photographs made by Paul Nash in the aftermath of the First World War to contemporary artists exploring themes of memory, belonging, hauntology, dislocation and human impact on nature. In his introductory essay Robert Macfarlane explains that the eerie ?involves that form of fear which is felt first as unease then as dread, and it tends to be incited by glimpses and tremors rather than outright attack. Horror specialises in confrontation and aggression; the eerie in intimation and intimidation.? Macfarlane suggests that eerie art has often flourished at times of crisis, as seen in the work of Neo-Romantic artists around the time of the Second World War.00The works featured in the exhibition are grouped around four overlapping themes: Ancient Landscapes ? features that are inexplicable and mysterious, connecting us to the unknown distant past; Unquiet Nature ? landscapes and natural forms used to unsettling effect, such as trees, lonely expanses of heath and the borderlands where different worlds meet; Absence/Presence ? how the inclusion (and absence) of figures and objects can generate feelings of the eerie through mystery, suggestion and isolation; Atmospheric Effect ? the influence of weather, season, light and the time of day on responses to landscape.00Exhibition: St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, New St, Lymington, UK (11.09.2021 ? 08.01.2022)
Anmerkung:
Impressum: Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Unsettling Landscapes" at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, 11 September 2021-8 January 2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Großbritannien
;
Kunst
;
Landschaft
;
Das Unheimliche
;
Geschichte 1920-2021
;
Ausstellungskatalog
;
Bildband
Mehr zum Autor:
Macfarlane, Robert 1976-
