Facing The Elements - Visualizing Weather Then, Climate Now - Olivia Stone

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Résumé :
Combining historical and contemporary treatments of weather and climate in art, this catalog features masterworks from 1500 through the present day that engage with weather, meteorology, and climate.

Facing the Elements unites two exhibitions at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. Essays on the four elements, women and weather, peril, and satire reveal changing attitudes following the Scientific Revolution, while interviews with a climate scientist and a psychologist, and an essay on an immersive installation by artists Christa Donner and Andrew S. Yang explore our physical relationship
with climate today. From personifications to the sense of touch, and from storm-tossed peril to scientific progress, these artworks foreground the human connection to our atmosphere. Plates include unique graphic interventions by Donner and Yang made exclusively for the publication....

Biographie:
Samantha Cataldo is curator of contemporary art at the Worcester Art Museum. Olivia J. Stone is assistant curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts....

Sommaire:
This publication presents an updated catalogue raisonn? of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's architectural drawings, expanding the foundational edition published in German by Heinrich Brauer and Rudolf Wittkower in 1931 and here translated into English for the first time. By complementing the original text with essays based on more recent studies of the drawings and monuments, this work will prove essential for anyone interested in Bernini....