Gainsborough S Vision

Author : Amal Asfour,Dr Paul Williamson,Paul Williamson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 085323874X

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Gainsborough's Vision by Amal Asfour,Dr Paul Williamson,Paul Williamson Pdf

Thomas Gainsborough, one of the most popular British painters, has been celebrated as a landscapist, a portrait painter, and a man of feeling whose impetuous character is revealed in his art, life and letters. This book reveals that the style, themes and ideas of Gainsborough’s paintings constitute purposeful expressions of an intellectual and visual culture whose importance in the development of eighteenth-century British art has gone unrecognized. "Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson have set out to make us look more knowledgeably at the paintings of Gainsborough... their treatment is richly informative."—George Steiner, The Observer "Asfour and Williamson display a profound knowledge of 18th-century aesthetics... a highly stimulating book."—The British Art Journal

Author : George Williams Fulcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Painters
ISBN : BL:A0018624454

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Life of Thomas Gainsborough by George Williams Fulcher Pdf

Author : George Williams Fulcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Painters
ISBN : HARVARD:32044034207241

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Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. by George Williams Fulcher Pdf

Author : Penelope McElwee
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443888745

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The Non-Representation of the Agricultural Labourers in 18th and 19th Century English Paintings by Penelope McElwee Pdf

The life of the poor rural worker appears to have been one of unmitigated toil within an unequal society, a reality seldom endorsed in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The contemporary viewer, who constituted less than three per cent of the population, wished to see visions of the idyllic golden landscapes of Merrie England peopled by happy contented workers, or, alternatively, images of the Big House, a feature and phenomenon now marching over the countryside, fed by a new building frenzy. This particular element would soon evolve into an all-consuming preoccupation for the wealthy throughout the period. Members of the upper echelons of society, with their families all attired in fine silks and satins, look out at their audience from ornately framed canvases as individuals. Yet the rural poor, the rabble at the gates, the unseen workforce, who toiled at the behest of the Master, are virtually unknown. They have left few records. Enclosure came at a price. The Poorhouse beckoned. And still the agricultural labourer did virtually nothing, for most of the eighteenth century, to protest or rebel against the inequalities of his downtrodden existence. Only the dreaded behemoth of the nineteenth century, the threshing machine, would stir him into action. How would it end?

Author : George Moss Brock-Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Arts
ISBN : UCAL:$B122272

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Gainsborough by George Moss Brock-Arnold Pdf

This biography features the life of British painter Thomas Gainsborough.

Author : George Moss Brock-Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Painters
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032043841

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Gainsborough ; John Constable, R.A. by George Moss Brock-Arnold Pdf

Author : John Timbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Art
ISBN : COLUMBIA:AR62882325

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Anecdote Lives of William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and J.M.W. Turner by John Timbs Pdf

Author : John Timbs
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Art
ISBN : BL:A0018566172

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Anecdote Biography. William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and J. M. W. Turner by John Timbs Pdf

Author : Vittoria Di Palma
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300197792

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Wasteland by Vittoria Di Palma Pdf

In an eloquent history of landscape and land use, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the “anti-picturesque”—how landscapes that elicit fear and disgust have shaped our conceptions of beauty and the sublime.

Author : John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:74713365

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The Eclectic Magazine by John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:32000000482119

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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Corneilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351561884

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J.C. Bach by Paul Corneilson Pdf

This volume of essays brings together the best of recent scholarship on Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of J.S. Bach and a friend and mentor of Mozart. J.C. Bach had a cosmopolitan career, beginning in Berlin as a pupil of his half-brother, C.P.E. Bach, then a sojourn to Italy where he studied with Padre Martini in Bologna; after making his successful debut with operas for Turin and Naples he moved to London, where he became a leading composer and impresario. The articles selected for this volume represent the principal themes of scholarly research and writing over the past fifty years. The introduction provides a survey of J.C. Bach‘s career and an overview of recent literature. The collection includes English translations of two articles first published in German in the Bach-Jahrbuch, as well as one article published as recently as 2015. An appendix lists the complete contents of The Collected Works of Johann Christian Bach, using the Warburton catalogue numbers.

Author : N. D'Anvers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : YALE:39002069870476

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Thomas Gainsborough by N. D'Anvers Pdf

Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781447486831

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Collected Works Of William Hazlitt by William Hazlitt Pdf

This early work by William Hazlitt is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a collection of essays on various subjects by one of the unsung masters of the English language. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in English literature. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : John-Paul Stonard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781526645838

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Creation by John-Paul Stonard Pdf

A fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse. Some fifty thousand years ago, on an island in modern-day Indonesia, an early human used red ochre pigment to capture the likeness of a native pig on a limestone cave wall. Around the same time, across the globe in Europe, another human retrieved a lump of charcoal from an old fire and sketched four galloping horses. It was like a light turning on in the human mind. Our instinct to produce images in response to nature allowed the earliest Homo sapiens to understand the world around us, and to thrive. Now, the art historian John-Paul Stonard has travelled across continents to take us on a panoramic journey through the history of art – from ancient Anatolian standing stones to a Qing Dynasty ink handscroll, from a drawing by a Kiowa artist from the Great Plains to a post-independence Congolese painting. Lavishly illustrated throughout, Creation is an ambitious, thrilling and landmark work that leads us from Benin to Belgium, China to Constantinople, Mexico to Mesopotamia. Journeying from pre-history to the present day, it explores the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse, and asks how – and why – we create.