Farm Animal Portraits - Couverture souple

Moncrieff, Elspeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1851492399 ISBN 13 : 9781851492398

Editeur : ACC Art Books, 2005

Synopsis

Using over 300 illustrations, this work examines the development of farm animal painting in its historical and agricultural context, and looks closely at the artists, many of them little known, who specialized in this genre. In the late 18th century a fashion for breeding farm animals swept the country, Royalty, nobility and commoners competed side by side for livestock prizes at the agricultural shows which sprung up all over the country. Competition to the breed the fattest animal, on the least amount of food, in the shortest possible time was intense. It was a period of extreme experimentation. Pigs were bred so fat they could not stand unaided and cows weighing 200 stone toured the country on exhibition. Many of these animals are now endangered, extinct or changed beyond recognition and the livestock portraits of the day form the only record of the vanished agricultural heritage.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ACC Art Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1851492399
• ISBN 13: 9781851492398
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible