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Author: Lucy Wood
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Lady Lever Art Gallery has a collection of 18th Century British furniture unsurpassed by any other holding outside the Victoria and Albert Museum. The commodes are the most important and spectacular part of this collection and are analysed in meticulous detail providing new documentation on their origin and attribution.
Author: Edward Morris
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780853235279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are over thirty public art galleries in north-west England with substantial permanent collections. The superb collections in Liverpool at the Walker Art Gallery and in Manchester at the City Art Gallery and at the Whitworth Art Gallery are well known, while Lord Leverhulme’s splendid British paintings and sculptures preserved at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight have an international reputation. For Pre-Raphaelite, Classical, Aesthetic and Impressionist British art and much else, north-west England cumulatively has public collections unmatched even in London. This book is both a guide and a history to these collections as well as other less famous public collections containing little-known masterpieces.
Author: Edward Hubbard
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 0853234558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPort Sunlight was founded in 1888 by the industrialist Lord Leverhulme to house the workers from his prospering business—which would evolve into Unilever. Acclaimed for its planning and house design, Port Sunlight greatly influenced subsequent planned developments, as well as the garden city movement. This fully revised version of A Guide to Port Sunlight marries the practical details of a guidebook with historical information about Port Sunlight’s design and architecture, its place in the history of urban planning, and Leverhulme's role in the town’s creation. A wealth of illustrations helps make this the perfect book for armchair and actual travelers to this jewel of nineteenth-century town planning.
Author: Dr Inge Reist
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-10-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 147243806X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of fourteen essays by distinguished art and cultural historians examine points of similarity and difference in British and American art collecting. Half the essays examine the trends that dominated the British art collecting scene of the nineteenth century. Others focus on American collectors, using biographical sketches and case studies to demonstrate how collectors in the United States embellished the British model to develop their own, often philanthropic approach to art collecting.
Author: Markus Müller
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783777439815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning in the 1950s, Pablo Picasso concerned himself intensely with the linocut, creating a veritable cosmos of bullfighting scenes, mythological images, and abstract portraits. Neglected for many years, this traditional printmaking technique--which effectively combined his talent as a draftsman with his expressive use of color--was consequently to experience a renaissance. On par with his paintings in their coloristic effects, Picasso's linocuts convey both the mature tone of the late Picasso and the almost youthful buoyancy of an artist of over seventy years who once more found himself the eager apprentice of a new technique. And with his experimental approach to the new medium--as shown by countless artist's and trial proofs, many of which are included here--Picasso helped to establish the linocut in the modern-day art world as a professional printmaking technique. In addition to exploring Picasso's unconventional handling of the linocut, this volume--created to accompany an exhibition this year at the Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso in Munster--also recounts the history of the linocut and the biographical circumstances under which Picasso created his works. Included in this lavish volume are more than one hundred illustrations of the vibrant prints Picasso created between 1954 and 1968. Many are among the artist's most defining work and demonstrate his lifelong ability to engage with virtually any medium and to make it his own.
Author: Alex Kidson
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed catalogue of the paintings in the gallery by British artists born before 1810. This group of 151 paintings, collected by Lord Leverhulme between 1896 and 1925, represents one of the key areas of his taste, and includes masterpieces by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Wilson, Stubbs, Constable and Turner.
Author: Christopher Wright
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 950
ISBN-13: 9780300117301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.
Author: Jill Berk Jiminez
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 1135959145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a brief biography, selected works in which the model appears (with location), a list of further reading. This will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.
Author: Andrea Korda
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1351553240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrinting and Painting the News in Victorian London offers a fresh perspective on Social Realism by contextualizing it within the burgeoning new media environment of Victorian London. Paintings labelled as Social Realist by Luke Fildes, Frank Holl and Hubert Herkomer are frequently considered to typify the sentimental Victorian genre painting that quickly became outdated with the development of modernism. Yet this book argues that the paintings must be considered as the result of the new experiences of modernity-the urban poverty that the paintings represent and, most importantly, the advent of the mass-produced illustrated news. Fildes, Holl and Herkomer worked for The Graphic, a publication launched in 1869 as a rival to the dominant Illustrated London News. The artists? illustrations, which featured the growing problem of urban poverty, became the basis for large-scale paintings that provoked controversy among their contemporaries and later became known as Social Realism. This first in-depth study of The Graphic and Social Realism uses the approach of media archaeology to unearth the modernity of these works, showing that they engaged with the changing notions of objectivity and immediacy that nineteenth-century new media cultivated. In doing so, this book proposes an alternative trajectory for the development of modernism that allows for a richer understanding of nineteenth-century visual culture.
