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Author: Luke Herrmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the beginnings of landscape painting in Britain to the rise of the classical tradition under the Italian influence; the topographical tradition; landscape artists who drew inspiration from visits to Italy; the tradition of the Netherlands and the rise of the Picturesque.
Author: Katharine Baetjer
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis aptly named volume brings together 91 masterpieces in oil and watercolor by 44 artists, the zenith of England's sublime landscape tradition. These beautiful, innovative works represent the most talented artists of the genre -- including Gainsborough, Wright of Derby, Turner, and Constable.
Author: Peter De Bolla
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780804748001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain, setting out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look.
Author: Eleanor Hughes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300221572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, this publication shows how the genre corresponded with Britain's growing imperial power and celebrated its increasing military presence on the seas, representing the subject matter in a way that was both documentary and sublime. Works by leading purveyors of the style, including Peter Monamy, Samuel Scott, Dominic Serres, and Nicholas Pocock, are featured alongside sketches, letters, and other ephemera that help frame the political and geographic significance of these inspiring views, while also establishing the painters' relationships to concurrent metropolitan art cultures. This survey, featuring a wealth of beautifully reproduced images, demonstrates marine painting's overarching relevance to British culture of the era. Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (09/15/16-12/04/16)
Author: David Peters Corbett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-02-16
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 1119170117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history. A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British art Combines original research with a survey of existing scholarship and the state of the field Touches on the whole of the history of British art, from 800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after 1500 Provides the first comprehensive introduction to British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study Presents in depth the major preoccupations that have emerged from recent scholarship, including aesthetics, gender, British art’s relationship to Modernity, nationhood and nationality, and the institutions of the British art world
Author: Thomas Daniell
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Published: 1816
Total Pages: 354
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kate Retford
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300194807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShortlisted for the 2018 Apollo Book of the Year award Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic settings. These artists grappled with creating complex multi-figured compositions and intricate narratives, filling their paintings with representations of socially, nationally, and temporally precise customs. Paying particular attention to the vibrant (and at times fabricated) interior and exterior settings in these works, Kate Retford discusses the various ways that the conversation piece engaged with the rich material culture of Georgian Britain. The book also explores how these portraits served a wide array of interests and concerns among familial networks and larger social groups. From codifying performances of politeness to engaging in cross-cultural exchanges, the conversation piece was a complex and nuanced expression of a multifaceted society. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Author: Ann Bermingham
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780520066236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this interdisciplinary study, Ann Bermingham explores the complex, ambiguous, and often contradictory relationship between English landscape painting and the socio-economic changes that accompanied enclosure and the Industrial Revolution.
Author: Christine Riding
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 9781854379481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars have debated the term 'sublime' in the field of aesthetics for centuries. Many more artists, writers, poets and musicians have sought to evoke or respond to it. But what is the sublime? Is it a thing, a feeling, an event or a state of mind? The word, of Latin origin, means something that is 'set or raised aloft, high up'. The sublime is further defined as having the quality of such greatness, magnitude or intensity, whether physical, metaphysical, moral, aesthetic or spiritual, that our ability to perceive or comprehend it is temporarily overwhelmed. The best-known theory published in Britain is Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). Burke's definition of the sublime focuses on such terms as darkness, obscurity, privation, vastness, magnificence, loudness and suddenness, and that our reaction is defined by a kind of pleasurable terror. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the sublime was associated in particular with the immensity or turbulence of Nature and human responses to it. Consequently, in Western art, 'sublime' landscapes and seascapes, especially those from the Romantic period, often represent towering mountain ranges, deep chasms, violent storms and seas, volcanic eruptions or avalanches which, if actually experienced, would be life threatening. Other themes relate to the epic and the supernatural as described in drama, poetry and fiction, for example, by Homer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, as well as more contemporary authors, such as Byron and Mary Shelley. Arguably the greatest source of the sublime for European art is the Bible, which begins with the creation of the world and ends with apocalypse and the Last Judgement. This display has been devised by curator Christine Riding.
Author: Paul Sandby
Publisher: Royal Academy Books
Published: 2009-10
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published on the occasion of Paul Sandby (1731-1809): picturing Britain, a bicentenary exhibition, first shown at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 25 July-18 October, 2009.
