Download or read book The Artist and the Built Environment written by Donald Stoltenberg and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1980 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the built environment -- the buildings, transportation, and engineering works around us. Conversion of old structures to contemporary uses, preservation, and ind'l. archaeology indicate an awareness of the urban landscape and the effect it has upon us. The artist's function is to examine, digest, and interpret our surroundings. This book includes artists who have responded to this theme, such as Canaletto, Sheeler, Demuth, Burchfield, Turner and Soutine. Examples have been chosen to show how artists of different periods, temperaments, and backgrounds have approached similar subjects or even the same motif. Profusely illustrated.