Name/Title
A blue idyll : cyanotypes and dreamsEntry/Object ID
N9500.H365.B5Description
For over two decades, visual artist and historian Brenton Hamilton has created a sustained body of work, mostly employing nineteenth century photography techniques no longer commercially available. Hamilton has produced a unique body of work using methodologies like gum bichromated forms, platinum, and collodion ambrotypes on black glass, French variants of paper calotype and of course the embellished cyanotype. Influenced by the Surrealist motifs, coaxing dream-like, chance collisions of fragments from art history, Hamilton shapes a new landscape in his photographs. He combines human anatomy, astronomy and botanical imagery to create intriguing and provocative arrangements. His work references ancient Greece and Rome, as well as 15th and 16th century Dutch and Italian paintings. Hamilton uses symbols and visual elements from the history of art to create a thoroughly contemporary vision.Lexicon
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artist monographs, blue, blue in art, cyanotype, photographers, photographyInscription/Signature/Marks
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SignatureNotes
Signed by artist.Book Details
Author
Brenton HamiltonPublisher
Schilt PublishingPlace Published
City
AmsterdamCountry
NetherlandsContinent
EuropeDate Published
2020Call No.
N9500.H365.B5ISBN
9053309411, 9789053309414Notes
Length: 106