EAN: 9783791379654

THE SUN GEBUNDEN

Published in conjunction with the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Monet's 1872 painting
Impression  Sunrise  this unique and illuminating catalog reaches throughout history to explore
how artists have incorporated the sun as a reference point and as inspiration in their art. For
as long as humans have been making art  they have turned to the sun as the source of light 
warmth and life itself. It appears as a symbol of limitless power  as the personification of
gods and of Christ  and as a harbinger of change. Artists have also used the sun as a means of
exploring light and color and as an entrée into discussions about climate. The first of its
kind  this book investigates visual representations of the sun from antiquity to the present
day. It is divided into seven roughly chronological sections that look at both epoch-spanning
and period specific examples  including symbolic  allegorical representations  the iconography
of mythological subjects  and mimetic qualities such as typology  phenomenology  and emotional
effect. It includes more than two hundred stunning reproductions of well- and lesser-known
works of art. Incisive and enlightening texts explore how solar symbolism figured in
pre-Christian objects  through 17th-century depictions of the Sun King Louis XIV  how artists
such as Rubens and Monet employed the sun in their narrative paintings  how the Impressionists
first investigated the sun's effects on a landscape  how Neo-Impressionists such as Seurat
experimented with color  based on the Newtonian analysis of the solar spectrum  and how
20th-century artists incorporated a broad array of abstract  surrealistic  and transformative
modes of solar representation into a variety of media.

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