A must for anyone who loves snow: featuring about 180 works, this volume offers a multifaceted survey of art and cultural history, demonstrating how artists from 1800 to the present have depicted snow—its white splendor as well as its dark sides.The selection begins with the artistic conquest of the Alpine world in the pre-Romantic era. The artists around 1800 considered snow an aesthetic phenomenon—the threatening force of nature mutates into a white, snow-covered wilderness. Later, the famous plein-air paintings of Impressionists such as Monet and Signac lent artistic expression to snow. Other world-class artists—Segantini, Kirchner, and Dix, for example—provide insight into variations on the motif in Symbolism, Expressionism, and New Objectivity. Images of snow in early photographs, examples of posters promoting winter tourism, dramatic and documentary films, and works by selected contemporary artists, including Peter Fischli and David Weiss, strike an arc from the twentieth century to the present.                                                     Exhibition schedule: Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz, and Museum Huber-Hus, Lech am Arlberg, June 20–October 4, 2009