by Meritxell Casadesús, Francesc Fontbona, Engràcia Torrella · tapa blanda · ISBN 9784980300565
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«La finestra oberta» is the art book by Meritxell Casadesús, Francesc Fontbona and Engràcia Torrella on Catalan landscape painting 1860-1936, in paperback.
The book covers Catalan landscape painting between 1860 and 1936 and analyzes how landscape painting became established in Catalonia in that period: the evolution of the genre, the artists' view of the territory and the place of nature in Catalan art from the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th.
The edition is published by the Diputació de Barcelona; the text is in Catalan and the subtitle is «Paisatgisme català 1860-1936».
For readers interested in the history of Catalan art and landscape painting of the period.
Francesc Fontbona de Vallescar is a Catalan art historian, writer, exhibition curator and specialist in Romanticism, Catalan Modernism and Noucentisme Arts. Fontbona is the author of many works of Catalan art history. Doctorate in Early modern period from the Universitat de Barcelona in 1987. He was director of Graphic section in National Library of Catalonia (1995-2013), and Chief executive-writer of art section in the Great Catalan Encyclopedia (1968–78). Francesc Fontbona is member of the Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Saint George, member of The Hispanic Society of America, member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans and Board chair of the Institut Amatller d'Art Hispànic.
