Inness LandscapesWatson-Guptill Publications, 1973 - 87 pages |
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... landscape date from antiquity , but this " landscape of symbols " or " landscape of fantasy " served mainly as a background for religious , mythological , allegorical , or historical compositions . Although there are exceptions - the ...
... landscape date from antiquity , but this " landscape of symbols " or " landscape of fantasy " served mainly as a background for religious , mythological , allegorical , or historical compositions . Although there are exceptions - the ...
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... landscape themes ; his numerous landscape drawings were never publicly exhibited in his lifetime . Curiously , Cole never saw - only heard of and dreamt of- America's " wildness . " In fact , his finest work , The Oxbow ( in The ...
... landscape themes ; his numerous landscape drawings were never publicly exhibited in his lifetime . Curiously , Cole never saw - only heard of and dreamt of- America's " wildness . " In fact , his finest work , The Oxbow ( in The ...
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... landscape " fits him better than it does anyone else . But he preferred what he called " civilized landscape ” —places which suggest the nearness of man as a farmer and builder - to the entirely untamed wilderness . In his pictures ...
... landscape " fits him better than it does anyone else . But he preferred what he called " civilized landscape ” —places which suggest the nearness of man as a farmer and builder - to the entirely untamed wilderness . In his pictures ...
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