Mist and Fog in British and European Painting
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Mist can conceal a landscape, soften its edges or make it feel charged with an unseen presence. Evan R. Firestone’s study explores the expressive role of mist and fog in British and European painting, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
Works by Fuseli, Friedrich, Turner, Monet and their contemporaries provide the focus for an account of atmosphere as more than a weather effect. The book considers associations with uncertainty, memory and time, alongside spiritual and supernatural experience. Literary examples enrich the discussion, showing how obscured vision can become a metaphor shared by writers and painters.
Part of the Northern Lights series, this 176-page hardback includes 84 colour illustrations. It is particularly suited to readers interested in atmospheric landscape and the emotional effects of light, distance and concealment. By concentrating on one apparently elusive subject, the book offers a precise way to look again at paintings whose power depends on what cannot quite be seen.
Book Details
- Author / contributors: Evan R. Firestone
- Publisher: Lund Humphries
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 176
- ISBN: 9781848225732
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