A window on the world
Subtitle: from Dürer to Mondrian and beyond : looking through the window of art from the Renaissance to today
By: [catalogue edited by Francesca Bernasconi, Marco Franciolli, Giovanni Iovane]
Contributors: Museo cantonale d'arte (Lugano, Switzerland); Museo d'arte (Lugano, Switzerland); Fondation de l'Hermitage
Publisher: Skira
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9788857216973; 9788857217505
Subjects: Renaissance Art; Modern Art; Windows in art; Exhibitions
Description: "Through more than 200 works, the representation and pictorial meaning of the window in Western art. Through more than 200 works from private collections and museums from all over the world, this book seeks to analyze the gradual changes which have occurred in the representation and pictorial meaning of the window."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Catalog of an itinerant exhibition held at the Museo cantonale d'arte and at the Museo d'arte, Lugano, Switzerland, Sept. 16, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013, and at the Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland, Jan. 25-May 20, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (page 329) and index.
Table of contents: title: The artist at the window. Images, processes, and figures in western art, from Leon Battista Alberti to contemporary art / Marco Franciolli; title: [Windows] / Giovanni lovane; title: Works. An open window ; The still-life and the window ; At the window ; Interior/exterior, views ; New perspectives ; Grids ; Light and shadow ; Subject/object ; The closed window ; Inner views ; Screens ; Grids / Rosalind Krauss ; Rear window / Victor I. Stoichita ; A window opened onto the world: Frames as windows...windows as frames / Daniela Ferrari ; Stories of windows / Elio Grazioli ; The window and the silver screen / Alberto Pezzota ; Alexej von Jawlensky: Windows on the inner world / Angelica Jawlensky ; Openings to vision: The motif of the window in the work of Pierre Bonnard / Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath ; Art is looking at you: Josef Albers and the space of the picture / Brenda Danilowitz; title: Baladine, Rike and Balthus: Looking through the window / Nicholas Fox Weber.