內容簡介
This richly illustrated volume explores mystical themes in European,
Scandinavian, and North American landscape paintings from the late 1800s
to the early 1900s. This book features works by Emily Carr, Marc
Chagall, Arthur Dove, Paul Gauguin, Lawren Harris, Wassily Kandinsky,
Gustav Klimt, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Georgia
O’Keeffe, Vincent van Gogh and James McNeill Whistler, among others.
Common to their work is the expression of the spiritual crisis that
arose in society and the arts in reaction to the disillusionments of the
modern age, and against the malaise that resulted in the Great War.
Many artists turned their backs on institutional religion, searching for
truth in universal spiritual philosophies. This book includes essays
investigating mystical landscape genres and their migration from
Scandinavia to North America, with a focus upon the Group of Seven and
their Canadian and American counterparts. Accompanying an exhibition at
the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d’Orsay, this book offers a
penetrating look at the Symbolist influence on the landscape genre.