Light! : the industrial age 1750-1900 : art & science, technology & society / Andreas Blühm, Louise Lippincott.

Main entry:

Blühm, Andreas.

Title & Author:

Light! : the industrial age 1750-1900 : art & science, technology & society / Andreas Blühm, Louise Lippincott.

Publication:

[London] : Thames & Hudson ; [Pittsburgh, Pa.] : Carnegie Museum of Art ; [Amsterdam] : Van Gogh Museum, 2000.

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"This book is published to coincide with the exhibition Light! the Industrial Age, 1750-1900. Art & Science, Technology & Society at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (20 October 2000-11 February 2001) and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (6 April-29 July 2001)."--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.

Summary:

"Of all the revolutionary changes brought about by the Industrial Age perhaps the most extraordinary and far-reaching was the transformation of light. Scientists described its hidden laws to the general public for the first time. Artists found radical ways of depicting it. Inventors found new ways of making it. The lives of ordinary people changed forever as streets, shops, theatres, even their own homes were brilliantly illuminated, first by gas, and then, even more dazzlingly, by electricity." "The story is told here for the first time in its entirety. The book describes the inventions still with us, such as electric light, the microscope and photography, as well as arcane reminders of a vanished world, such as the heliostat, the lithophane and the magic lantern. It portrays a revolution in the arts: the impressionists conjuring up sunlight, Constable redefining daylight, Caspar David Friedrich discovering twilight. And it debates the changing symbolism of light: the meaning of the Enlightenment, the light of God's truth, the nightmarish light of factory furnaces by night."--Jacket

ISBN:

0880390409
9780880390408
0500510296
9780500510292

Subject:

Licht, ...
Light in art Exhibitions.
Light sources Exhibitions.
Light Exhibitions.
Lumière dans l'art Expositions.
Sources de lumière Expositions.
Éclairage dans l'art Expositions.
Art et technologie Histoire 18e siècle Expositions.
Art et technologie Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Lumière Expositions.
20.30 history of art: general.
Light in art
Light
Light sources
Kunst
Licht
Industriële ontwikkeling.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibitions (form)

Added entries:

Lippincott, Louise, 1953-
Carnegie Museum of Art.
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215337
Call No.: N8219.L5 B5 2000
Status: Available

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