In the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditional role as background to its new place as the focal point of a picture. His paintings, drawings, and etchings appeared almost without warning and mysteriously disappeared from view just as suddenly. In Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape, Christopher S. Wood shows how Altdorfer transformed what had been the mere setting for sacred and historical figures into a principal venue for stylish draftsmanship and idiosyncratic ...
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In the early sixteenth century, Albrecht Altdorfer promoted landscape from its traditional role as background to its new place as the focal point of a picture. His paintings, drawings, and etchings appeared almost without warning and mysteriously disappeared from view just as suddenly. In Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape, Christopher S. Wood shows how Altdorfer transformed what had been the mere setting for sacred and historical figures into a principal venue for stylish draftsmanship and idiosyncratic painterly effects. At the same time, his landscapes offered a densely textured interpretation of that quintessentially German locus--the forest interior. This revised and expanded second edition contains a new introduction, revised bibliography, and fifteen additional illustrations.
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What a wonderful book on a wonderful topic -- the mysterious art of the landscape of the German Renaissance as revealed by its best and most mythical -- the great Albrecht Altdorfer. Mr. Wood displays superb scholarship, illustrates it with excellent pictures, writes in a complex, difficult but great poectic style. A proof, yes, that great scholarship need not be dry and boring!
ArtReligionPhD
Jul 26, 2007
Good stuff
Christopher Wood's monograph on Altdorfer's landscapes is many things: thorough, engaging, and bearing reasonably well-produced images. Lamentably, most of these are black and white, but the book's large-size format allows the reader to appreciate these works in good-sized reproduction, and the choice of which works to reproduce in color seems to have been made on a novel, but compelling basis: those which are least available to the English-language reading public are in color; those which can easily be accessed on the Internet or are well-known through prominent display in familiar art museums are in black and white. Albrecht Altdorfer is not a name generally associated with landscape, or in the public mind with anything at all, but he is an artist worth getting to know better, and Wood's excellent treatise is well-suited toward that end.
