Author: John T. HayesPublisher: [London] : Phaidon [Distributed in U.S.A. by Praeger, New York
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Rowlandson; Watercolours and Drawings
Author: John T. HayesPublisher: [London] : Phaidon [Distributed in U.S.A. by Praeger, New York
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
British Watercolours and Drawings from Rowlandson to Riley
Author: The English Dance of Death
Author: William CombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists' illustrated books
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Rowlandson the Caricaturist
Author: Joseph GregoEnglish Watercolours and Drawings
Author: Andrea RoseRegarding Thomas Rowlandson, 1757-1827
Author: Matthew PaynePublisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
ISBN: 9780955406355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This story of one of the great graphic satirists and watercolour artists of the British School is based upon a mass of new research. Rowlandson kept no diary, wrote few letters, and occurs only infrequently in the memoirs of others. Source material is not abundant. But in more than a decade's research, using church and official records, newspaper reports, contemporary accounts, sales catalogues and consideration of his pictures, the authors shed new light on Rowlandson's family background, his education and art training in London and Paris, his personal and professional associations, his travels in Britain and abroad, and the work itself. Fully illustrated, this contribution to scholarship will appeal to the general reader and specialist alike and is destined to become the standard work on this benchmark British artist.
London Art Worlds
Author: Jo ApplinPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271081341
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art. The contributors to London Art Worlds examine the many activities and movements that existed alongside more established institutions in this period, from the rise of cybernetics and the founding of alternative publications to the public protests and new pedagogical models in London’s art schools. The essays explore how international artists and the rise of alternative venues, publications, and exhibitions, along with a growing mobilization of artists around political and cultural issues ranging from feminism to democracy, pushed the boundaries of the London art scene beyond the West End’s familiar galleries and posed a radical challenge to established modes of making and understanding art. Engaging, wide-ranging, and original, London Art Worlds provides a necessary perspective on the visual culture of the London art scene in the 1960s and ’70s. Art historians and scholars of the era will find these essays especially valuable and thought provoking. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Elena Crippa, Antony Hudek, Dominic Johnson, Carmen Juliá, Courtney J. Martin, Lucy Reynolds, Joy Sleeman, Isobel Whitelegg, and Andrew Wilson.
Great British Watercolors
Author: Matthew HargravesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300116586
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Paul Mellon (1907--1999) assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. In his memoirs he wrote of their “beauty and freshness… their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” This catalogue celebrating the centenary of Mellon's birth features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolors, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J. M.W. Turner.
Microcosm of London
Author: Rudolph AckermannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson in the Huntington Collection
Author: Thomas RowlandsonPublisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Huntington collection of drawings by Thomas Rowlandson is generally regarded as the largest and most comprehensive at present in a public museum. The collection offers an unrivaled opportunity for the study of this prolific artist's range of interests and the development of his technique. As a line draftsman and humorist, Thomas Rowlandson was probably the finest England has ever produced. Certainly he had a wider command of comic devices and comes closer to exploiting their full potentialities than any other British artist. He is also wonderfully inventive in discovering and expressing the comic aspects of a great variety of everyday situations. His reputation as a humorist, though, should not obscure his achievement in other fields: he is a charming landscapist and genre artist, and a skillful portraitist. All these facets of Rowlandson's work are well represented in this volume, which reproduces and catalogues all of the Huntington drawings, including those from A Tour in a Post Chaise and The English Dance of Death, both previously published by the Huntington. In his introductory essay, Robert Wark discusses Rowlandson's art and illustrates the various aspects of his work by relating them to selected drawings that are reproduced in full color. The book will be of immense value to the student of art history, and the layman will be delighted by the vigor and sheer virtuosity of Rowlandson's work.