Places of the Mind: British Watercolor Landscapes 1850-1950 - Couverture souple

Sloan, Kim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500292817 ISBN 13 : 9780500292815

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a landscape but also its emotional and spiritual impact landscape as places of the mind , as the critic Geoffrey Grigson put it is the focus of this fascinating new study of British watercolours produced between 1850 and 1950. Drawing on the British Museum s impressive collection, this book explores artists spiritual quests to capture the essence of landscape and convey a sense of place. Artists of the later 19th and early 20th centuries drew on earlier traditions but developed and extended the genre through their imaginative, personal responses to the artistic, cultural and social upheavals of the time.
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, this book includes works by Victorian artists Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Poynter and by many well known 20th-century artists, such as John and Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore, some of which have never previously been published.

Table of Contents

Introduction The tormentingly elusive art of drawing landscape, Kim Sloan A new golden age : The modern landscape watercolour, Jessica Feather South Country and other Imagined Places, Anna Gruetzner Robins Representation and reality in West Country landscapes, Sam Smiles Some Versions of Pastoral, Frances Carey

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Places of the Mind focuses on landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern age, challenging the perception that the best British watercolours were produced between 1750 and 1850. Drawing on the British Museum s impressive collection, this books demonstrates the way in which artists of the later 19th and early 20th centuries drew on the tradition of renowned landscape artists Constable and Turner but developed and extended the genre, focusing on the changing nature of the British countryside during the Industrial Revolution and two world wars. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, this book includes works by Victorian artists Sir Edward John Pointer and John Singer Sargent and by many well-known 20th-century artists, such as John and Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore, some of which have never previously been published.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0500292817
• ISBN 13: 9780500292815
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192