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Fire and Ice

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Description for Fire and Ice Hardback. Series: The Olana Collection. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 241 x 13. Weight in Grams: 599.

Frederic Church (1826–1900), who gained international renown for paintings such as Niagara (1857), Heart of the Andes (1859), Twilight in the Wilderness (1860), and The Icebergs (1861), was inspired by his extensive travel and study. His work was also informed by his appreciation of a new visual medium. Fire and Ice, a selection from the several thousand photographs and daguerreotypes Church collected at Olana, his Orientalist home on the Hudson River, provides insight into the interests and taste of one of nineteenth-century America's greatest painters.

Church was a boy of thirteen when the invention of photography was announced to the ... Read more

In Fire and Ice, images from Church's collection are shown along with a selection of his own oil sketches, drawings, and archival materials. Some of the photographs are devoted to the varied geographical interests reflected in Church's art and travels: Central and South America, the Middle East, and the polar North. Others served as visual reference for the design and construction of Olana. Lavishly illustrated, Fire & Ice shows how the photographs in Church's collection echoed the principal stages of the painter's career.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Series
The Olana Collection
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801440816
SKU
V9780801440816
Shipping Time
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99-16

About Thomas Weston Fels
Thomas Weston Fels is an independent curator and writer and Curator of the Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Manchester, Vermont. Among his many exhibitions and publications is O Say Can You See: American Photographs, 1839–1939. Kevin Avery has retired as Associate Curator of American Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Reviews for Fire and Ice
Fire and Ice provides an excellent introduction to the Church photography collection..., as well as to Olana as a Historic Site.... It opens up the whole issue of Orientalizing in the American nineteenth century.
Linnea S. Dietrich, Miami University
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

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