The Wood-engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton

The Wood-engravings of Blair Hughes-Stanton
Author: Penelope Hughes-Stanton
Publisher: Pinner, Middlesex, England : Private Libraries Association
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Hughes-Stanton is probably the most remarkable engraver in the country: in the world perhaps. His stimulus usually comes from literary subject-matter, but once the associations start working in his mind, they are almost immediately visualised in terms of box-wood and engraved textures. --p. ix.

Scene Through Wood

Scene Through Wood
Author: Anne Desmet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781910807378

Covers the entire history of wood engraving, including every major artist of the genre Accompanies the Scene through Wood: A Century of Wood Engraving exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, from 28 March to 12 July 2020 The Ashmolean Museum houses one of the most extensive collections of wood engravings in the world. The collection effectively began with the gift in 1964, by Arthur Mitchell, of over 3,000 prints, including a large group of wood engravings. During the 1980s and 1990s, it expanded remarkably with acquisitions of large groups of prints, often as gifts from the artists, resulting in a succession of monographic exhibitions on some of the most important wood engravers. They included John Farleigh (1986), John Buckland Wright (1990), Clare Leighton (1992), Monica Poole (1993) and Anne Desmet (1998). A key point in this period of expansion was the acquisition of a comprehensive body of work by Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton in 1995 from the artists' family, which resulted in a memorable exhibition organized by Katharine Eustace. More recently, the Ashmolean has formed a close partnership with the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) and has been keeping the collection up to date by acquiring work by members, both at the Society's annual exhibition and privately. This exhibition catalog covers the entire history of wood engraving, including every major artist of the genre.

Box of Delights

Box of Delights
Author: Anne Desmet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-12
Genre: Wood-engraving
ISBN: 9781910807385

- The Ashmolean has one of the greatest wood engraving collections in the world. This book represents some of the very best from this collection The Ashmolean Museum houses one of the most extensive collections of wood engravings in the world. The collection effectively began with the gift in 1964, by Arthur Mitchell, of over 3,000 prints, including a large group of wood engravings. During the 1980s and 1990s, it expanded remarkably with acquisitions of large groups of prints, often as gifts from the artists, resulted in a succession of monographic exhibitions on some of the most important wood engravers. They included John Farleigh (1986), John Buckland Wright (1990), Clare Leighton (1992), Monica Poole (1993) and Anne Desmet (1998). A key point in this period of expansion was the acquisition of a comprehensive body of work by Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton in 1995 from the artists' family, which resulted in a memorable exhibition organised by Katharine Eustace. More recently, the Ashmolean has formed a close partnership with the SWE, and has been keeping the collection up to date by acquiring work by members, both at the Society's annual exhibition and privately.

The Wood Engravings of Agnes Miller Parker

The Wood Engravings of Agnes Miller Parker
Author: Ian Rogerson
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN:

With more than 800 examples, the most comprehensive compilation of Agnes Miller Parker's wood engravings.

A History of Wood-engraving

A History of Wood-engraving
Author: Douglas Percy Bliss
Publisher: London : Toronto : J.M. Dent ; New York : E.P. Dutton
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1928
Genre: Illustrated books
ISBN:

Laus Veneris

Laus Veneris
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1868
Genre: Ballads, English
ISBN:

Apocalypse in British Art and Visual Culture in the Early Twentieth Century

Apocalypse in British Art and Visual Culture in the Early Twentieth Century
Author: Thomas Bromwell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2024-11-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1040256309

This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern British art from 1914 to 1945, addressing how and why practitioners in both religious and secular spheres turned to the subjects. The volume examines British art and visual culture’s relationship with the then-contemporary anxieties and hopes regarding the orientation of society and culture, arguing that there is an acute relationship to the particular forms of cultural discourse of eschatology, apocalypse, and millennium. Chapters identify the continued relevance of religion and religious themes in British art during the period, and demonstrate that eschatology, apocalypse, and millennium were thriving and surprisingly mainstream concepts in the period that remained vital in early to mid-twentieth-century society and culture. This book is a research monograph aimed at an audience of scholars and graduate students already familiar with the core focus of modern British art and cultural histories, especially those working on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, or the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in Theology, Sociology, or other disciplinary settings. It will also be of interest to scholars and students working on war and visual culture, or histories of imperialism. It will benefit scholars of early twentieth-century British art, demonstrating the intersection of art and religion in the modern era, and critically qualifies the standard secular canon and narrative of modern British art, and the general neglect of religion in existing art-historical literature.