The Indian Picturesque : Landscape Painting 1800-1850
By
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Item Type
Hardbound
Serial
16546
Publisher
Dag
Description
236p.
ISBN / ISSN No.
978-81-9949604-0
Summay
‘Picturesque’ is a word that carries widely differing meanings. Its use in everyday speech is far removed from the specialist meaning intended by the aesthetic theorists who coined it in the 1790s. Literally meaning ‘like a picture’, it is obviously open to a range of interpretations. But the original theorists didn’t mean like any picture. Their vision was one of architecture and landscape, the two forming inseparable parts of an organic whole, which appeared natural, or even casual, while at the same time being carefully, artificially harmonised. They saw this tendency present in some landscape paintings of their own time and codified it for the future guidance of artists, architects and landscape gardeners.
Keyword
Paintings
DDC Classification No.
709
Accession No.
16546
Current Location
Neeti Bagh
Shelving location
57
Status
Available
Category
Painting
Gifted Detail
1