Plein Air

Volume One, Issue Three, Winter 2021

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ISSUE #3: “Plein Air” Overview

In this issue, we feature new work on the historical and contemporary notions of plein air. Revolutionized and primarily conceptualized in the mid-nineteenth century with the advent of impressionist painting, plein air broadly refers to the idea of creating art outside in the open air. We seek to uncover the subversive aesthetics of creating in the open air and what it means for an artwork to be full (plein) of air, itself. Bringing together a series of articles that deal with these themes from impressionism to the present day, this issue investigates the aesthetics and politics of our being in and awareness of air.

Plein Air

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