"Precisely these objects": Frederic Church and the culture of detail

• Autores: Jennifer Raab
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 95, Nº 4, 2013, págs. 578-596
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nineteenth-century American viewers expected landscape paintings to reconcile "detail" and "effect," but Frederic Church's paintings increasingly upset this balance. They exemplify a movement away from the allegorical impulses of Romantic landscape painting -in which details become a symbolic whole- to a mode in which details compete for attention and threaten to derail a larger narrative. Both praised and criticized for their proliferation of detail, works like The Heart of the Andes can be understood in terms of debates about the aims of landscape painting, the relation between scientific and artistic representation, and the cultural status of the detail as object.