Sarah J. Lippert - Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition

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Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition

In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body and mind have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages. Exploration of new lands and sensations is a fundamental human experience. This volume in turn provides a stimulating and adventurous exploration of the theme of travel from an art-historical perspective. Topical regions are covered, ranging from the Grand Tour and colonialism to the travels of Hadrian in ancient times and Georgia OKeeffes journey to the Andes; from Vasaris Neoplatonic voyages to photographing nineteenth-century Japan. The scholars assembled consider both imaginary travel, as well as factual or embellished documentation of voyages. The essays are far-reaching spatially and temporally, but all relate to how art has documented the theme of travel in varying media across time and as illustrated and described by writers, artists, and illustrators. The scope of this volume is far-reaching, both chronologically and conceptually, thereby appropriately documenting the universality of the theme to human experience.

Sarah J. Lippert is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Michigan-Flint, USA.

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Artistic Responses to Travel
in the Western Tradition

Edited by Sarah J. Lippert

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Cover Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog . c.1817. Oil on Canvas, 94.8 74.8 cm. Inc.:5161. On permanent loan from the Foundation for the Promotion of the Hamburg Art Collections. Photo: Elke Walford. Photographic credit: bpk Bildagentur/Kunsthalle Hamburg/Elke Walford/Art Resource, NYC.

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Editor and contributing author

Sarah Jordan Lippert, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History, University of Michigan-Flint

Contributing authors

Chad Wesley Airhart, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History, Carson-Newman College

Efram L. Burk, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History, Curry College

Stephen Cartwright, M.F.A., Associate Professor of Sculpture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne

Liana de Girolami Cheney, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, Independent Scholar, Boston, MA

Caroline I. Gillaspie, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, where she is a visiting instructor

Monica Anke Hahn, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, Temple University

Gillian Greenhill Hannum, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, Manhattanville College

Gerald A. Hess, Ph.D., Lecturer of Art History, University of Michigan-Flint

Elsie Heung, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Anna Piperato, Ph.D., Independent Scholar of Art History, Siena, Italy

Alice J. Walkiewicz, Ph.D. Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center, Lecturer, Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York, NY

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In a multi-authored project, there are many contributions that are worthy of acknowledgement. In particular, Dr. Lippert would like to thank her editor at Ashgate Publishing, Margaret Michniewicz, whose support of the formers research, professionalism, and dedication to academic publishing of art historical scholarship was much appreciated.

Dr. Lippert also extends her gratitude to the authors of the project for their commitment to the books quality and success. Additionally, Heather Workman, Pandora Wallace, Mary Kelly, and Jessica Balazovich assisted with collating key words and other front and back matter of the books content.

Lastly, Dr. Lippert would like to thank Dr. Melissa Geiger, Associate Professor of Art History of East Stroudsburg University, for assistance with the project in its genesis, which included the following contributions: feedback on a conference proposal written by Dr. Lippert; assisting Dr. Lippert with administrative tasks in organising a conference on a related theme at the Norton Art Gallery (2011); and, conducting limited e-mail correspondence with prospective authors while Dr. Lippert prepared the book proposal.

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Sarah J. Lippert

Knowing where artists have been, whom they have seen, and at what point in their lives they have experienced new places is often a fundamental consideration for art historians. Connoisseurs can frequently map new stylistic influences upon an artist to journeys of some kind that he or she has taken. Whether as a traveling exhibition, or as travel undertaken by an artist, patron, or critic, few sources of inspiration are as compelling as the experience of a new culture or landscape. Would Nicolas Poussin have become famous, had he not traveled to Rome? Would Caravaggios story have been as compelling, had he been able to return to Rome, instead of passing tragically while trying to get home?