Screen LibraryPainting the dream : from the biblical dream to surrealism /
Organized by period, from the Middle Ages to the present, this engaging book shows how the idea of the dream, and its depictions, have shifted throughout history, from the biblical dream--a communication from God--to the deeply personal dream, the lighthearted fantasy, the nightmare. Sometimes these...
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Abbeville Press Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
Organized by period, from the Middle Ages to the present, this engaging book shows how the idea of the dream, and its depictions, have shifted throughout history, from the biblical dream--a communication from God--to the deeply personal dream, the lighthearted fantasy, the nightmare. Sometimes these ideas have existed simultaneously: thus we have, only a few years apart, Raphael's limpid High Renaissance composition of Jacob dreaming his Ladder; Albrecht D?b1Ærer's watercolor of a mysterious deluge that he saw in his own slumbers; and Hieronymus Bosch's nightmarish hellscapes. More recently |
| Carrier Form: | 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-251) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780789213136 0789213133 |
| Index Number: | ND1460 |
| CLC: | J205 |
| Call Number: | J205/B496 |
| Contents: | Biblical and medieval dreams -- Dreams from the Renaissance to the Rococo -- Romantic dreams -- Realism, or the dream disappointed -- Dreams and aesthetic invention in the late nineteenth century -- The twentieth century: Surrealism and it's surroundings. |