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Book Aspects of British Landscape Painting in the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Aspects of British Landscape Painting in the Eighteenth Century written by Élodie Sénéchal and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century written by Luke Herrmann and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses 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.

Book Glorious Nature

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  • Author : Katharine Baetjer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Glorious Nature written by Katharine Baetjer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

Book Common Land in English Painting  1700 1850

Download or read book Common Land in English Painting 1700 1850 written by Ian Waites and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the treatment of common land in the work of English painters, at a time when much of it was to disappear forever. A most elegantly written book that calmly knocked many entrenched but erroneous notions about British landscape painting firmly on the head. Longlisted and commended by the judges of the 2013 William M. B. Berger prize forBritish art history. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, much of England's common land was eradicated by the processes of parliamentary enclosure. However, despite the fact that the landscape was frequentlyviewed as unproductive, outmoded and unsightly, many British landscape painters of the time - including Constable, Gainsborough and Turner - resolutely continued to depict it. This book is the first full study of how they did so, using evidence drawn not only from art-historical picture analysis, but from contemporary poems and novels, and the contemporary pamphlets, essays and reports that advanced the rhetoric of both agricultural improvement and new theories on landscape aesthetics. It highlights a deep-rooted social and cultural attachment to the common field landscape, and demonstrates that common land played a significant but - until now - underestimated role in both the history of English art and of the formation of an English national identity, reflecting what are still highly sensitive issues of progress, nostalgia and loss within the English countryside. Recasting common land as a recurrentfacet of English culture in the modern period, the numerous paintings, drawings and prints featured in this book give the reader a comprehensive and evocative sense of what this now almost wholly lost landscape looked like in itshey-day. Ian Waites is Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Design at the University of Lincoln.

Book The Dark Side of the Landscape

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  • Author : John Barrell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1983-09-29
  • ISBN : 9780521276559
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Dark Side of the Landscape written by John Barrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-09-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth-century saw a radical change in the depiction of country life in English painting: feeling less constrained by the conventions of classical or theatrical pastoral, landscape painters attempted to offer a portrayal of what life was really like, or was thought to be like, in England; and this inevitably involved a distinct approach to the depiction of the rural poor. John Barrell's influential 1980 study shows why the poor began to be of such interest to painters, and examines the ways in which they could be represented so as to be an acceptable part of the décor of the salons of the rich. His discussion focuses on the work of three painters: Thomas Gainsborough, George Morland and John Constable. Throughout the book, Barrell draws illuminating comparisons with the literature of rural life and with the work of other painters. His terse and vigourous account has provided a landmark for social historians and literary critics, as well as historians of art.

Book British Landscape Painters

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  • Author : Charles Hemming
  • Publisher : Victor Gollancz
  • Release : 1989-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780575039575
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book British Landscape Painters written by Charles Hemming and published by Victor Gollancz. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Four Late Eighteenth Century Anglo American Landscape Painters

Download or read book Four Late Eighteenth Century Anglo American Landscape Painters written by Jacob Hall Pleasants and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1970 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ruins

Download or read book Ruins written by Arthur L. Flett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English landscape painting

Download or read book English landscape painting written by Robert Spira and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Figure in the Landscape

Download or read book The Figure in the Landscape written by John Dixon Hunt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1989-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form—landscape gardening—and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the antural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had a tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the "free" English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth-century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace the gradual movement from formal regularity toward a carefully calculated naturalness.

Book Landscape Painting and the Agricultural Revolution

Download or read book Landscape Painting and the Agricultural Revolution written by George Edwin Fussell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of landscape painting in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has attracted considerable attention. The art of Gainsborough, Stubbs, Constable, Turner and the Norwich School is accepted as part of the British heritage, and the countryside as depicted by these artists is familiar not only to the specialist, but to most of us today. Nevertheless, this was an artificial landscape, one that had been created by the improving farmers of the period. The changes in the British landscape as a result of the new farming methods introduced by the agricultural revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is the theme of Dr. Fussell's study. The author examines the introduction of the new methods of farming in the seventeenth century, the growing adoption of the new systems that led to the numerous Enclosure Acts of the eighteenth century, the consequent transformation of the countryside, and the growth of demand for landscape painting among the nobility and richer landowners.

Book Art and the Sublime

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  • Author : Christine Riding
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9781854379481
  • Pages : 19 pages

Download or read book Art and the Sublime written by Christine Riding and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars 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.

Book Ruins

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  • Author : Arthur Lambert Flett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 626 pages

Download or read book Ruins written by Arthur Lambert Flett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Science and the Perception of Nature

Download or read book Science and the Perception of Nature written by Charlotte Klonk and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 1996 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Klonk's deeply researched accounts of the complex and often ambiguous interactions that took place between artists and scientists challenge simplistic accounts of developments in art as mere by-products of scientific progress as well as reductive socio-economic interpretations. For Klonk, the common thread running through the changes in both art and science is the emergence of a new phenomenalist conception of experience around the turn of the century. Phenomenalism involved a commitment to the scrupulous observation of particular phenomena, without making prior assumptions about meaning or underlying causes, and this ideal was common to both artists and scientists. In this way, Klonk argues, the period represents a brief moment of balance before the concerns of science and art split apart into objectivity and subjectivity, respectively.

Book British Landscape Painting of the 18th Century

Download or read book British Landscape Painting of the 18th Century written by Luke Herrmann and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: