Mist and Fog in British and European Painting: Fuseli, Friedrich, Turner, Monet and their Contemporaries...

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Evan R. Firestone

Mist and Fog in British and European Painting

Fuseli, Friedrich, Turner, Monet and their Contemporaries

Evan R. Firestone

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English

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
27 April 2023

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Painting & paintings; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Series: Northern Lights

The metaphorical meanings that have accrued to mist and fog, encouraged by their indeterminate and transitory nature, and the emotions to which they give rise, are variously evident in the work of major artists and their contemporaries.

This book is the first to address the themes of mist and fog in British and European painting, from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. It features paintings by Caspar David Friedrich and JMW Turner, amongst others, and the discussion of artworks is enriched with parallel literary examples that employ mist and fog as metaphor and in allegory, from antiquity to Joseph Conrad.

Mist and fog engender fascination and mystery, enticing with their wispy veils and vaporous moods, and they are the stuff of dreams and visions. 'The mists of time' and 'in a fog' are common expressions that substantiate the long association of mist and fog with the passage of time, the vagaries of memory and feelings of uncertainty. Mist and fog obscure, conceal and when they dissipate, reveal. Vaporous atmosphere in art and life masks evil and can elicit presentiments of death. It also has been used in art to convey the splendours of the spiritual world and the terrors of the supernatural.

By: Evan R. Firestone
Imprint: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 20mm
ISBN: 9781848225732
ISBN 10: 1848225733
Series: Northern Lights
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 27 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Evan R. Firestone is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia, USA and the author of Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art: Kandinsky, Ernst, Pollock and Beuys.

Reviews for Mist and Fog in British and European Painting: Fuseli, Friedrich, Turner, Monet and their Contemporaries

'The history of the representation of Mist and Fog is a real desideratum of research. As old as the phenomena are as a problem for representation in art, they have so far received little attention from art historical research. The study of these phenomena, which are so important for 18th- to early 20th-century painting, is therefore a welcome achievement.' - Prof. Dr. Nils Büttner, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and author of Landscape Painting: A History.