Glorious Nature

Glorious Nature
Author: Katharine Baetjer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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.

Adrian Berg

Adrian Berg
Author: Marco Livingstone
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-03-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781848223943

Exploring the full breadth of work by British artist Adrian Berg RA (1929-2011), and drawing heavily on the artist's personal archive, this book discusses Berg's meticulous engagement with the landscape which resulted in an impressive oeuvre created over a long career.00Embracing the figurative when abstraction was in the ascendancy, Berg's artistic mission was to push the boundaries of representative painting to discover new interpretations of familiar scenes. Accordingly, his paintings revisited particular places repeatedly ? most notably the view of Regent's Park from his studio window at Gloucester Gate.00Highly colourful and engagingly written, this book provides a long overdue appraisal and celebration of an artist who is key to the conversation around the development of British landscape painting, that most celebrated of British traditions.00Exhibition: Frestonian Gallery, London, UK (opening April 2020).

Science and the Perception of Nature

Science and the Perception of Nature
Author: Charlotte Klonk
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300069501

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.

Unquiet Landscape

Unquiet Landscape
Author: Christopher Neve
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0500775508

Christopher Neves classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states of mind? Painting, says Neve, is a process of finding out, and landscape can be its thesis. What he is writing is not precisely art history: it is about pictures, about landscape and about thought. Over the years, he was able to have discussions with many of the thirty or so artists he focuses on, the inspiration for the book having come from his talks with Ben Nicholson; and he has immersed himself in their work, their countryside, their ideas. Because he is a painter himself, and an expert on 20th-century art, Neve is well equipped for such a journey. Few writers have conveyed more vividly the mixture of motives, emotions, unconscious forces and contradictions which culminate in the creative act of painting. Each of the thirteen chapters has a theme and explores its significance for one or more of the artists. The problem of time, for instance, is considered in relation to Paul Nash, God in relation to David Jones, music to Ivon Hitchens, hysteria to Edward Burra, abstraction to Ben Nicholson, the spirit in the mass to David Bomberg. There are also chapters about painters ideas on specific types of country: about Eric Ravilious and the chalk landscape, Joan Eardley and the sea, and Cedric Morris and the garden.

The development of British landscape painting in water-colours

The development of British landscape painting in water-colours
Author: A. J. Finberg
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2022-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Written by an art historian, the following book documents the development of Britain's landscape painting that uses watercolors as a medium. It also discusses the works of the following artists: J.M.W. Turner, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Peter de Wint.

Edward Seago

Edward Seago
Author: James W. Reid
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1991
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections
Author: Christopher Wright
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 950
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300117301

This 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.

Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting

Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
Author: Martin Postle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Landscape painting, European
ISBN: 9780300203851

Long known as the father of British landscape painting, Richard Wilson (1713-1782) was in fact at the heart of a profound conceptual shift in European landscape art. This magnificently illustrated volume not only situates Wilson’s art at the beginning of a native tradition that would lead to John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, but compellingly argues that in Rome during the 1750s Wilson was part of an international group of artists who reshaped the art of Europe. Rooted in the work of great seventeenth-century masters such as Claude Lorrain but responding to the early stirrings of neoclassicism, Wilson forged a highly original landscape vision that through the example of his own works and the tutelage of his pupils in Rome and later in London would establish itself throughout northern Europe.

Kurt Jackson

Kurt Jackson
Author: Kurt Jackson
Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Ecology in art
ISBN: 9781848221024

Exploring the career of artist and environmentalist Kurt Jackson, this publication has at its centre the artist and the natural world. Jackson's paintings are set in places that he has travelled to and explored regularly, and are created by an individual with a deep understanding of natural history and ecology.