Product Description: Photographers have been irresistibly drawn to the window as a powerful source of inspiration throughout the history of the medium. As one of the first camera subjects, the window is literally and figuratively linked to the photographic process itself...read more

Product 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...read more

Product Description: During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian painting and drawing. Rooms with a View is the first book to explore this intriguing theme in European art, with its Romantic intimations of unfulfilled longing and its associated qualities of poetry, luminosity, and interiority...read more