Author: John ConstablePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
John Constable's correspondence
Author: John ConstablePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
John Constable's Correspondence: The Fishers
Author: John ConstablePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
John Constable
Author: Anthony BaileyPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448137713
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Born in 1776 in East Anglia near the river Stour, John Constable was destined for his father's business of milling and grain-shipping. But he was obdurately opposed to this and persuaded his family he should become an artist instead. In the same determined spirit, he wooed Maria Bicknell in the teeth of opposition from her formidable grandfather, and persisted in painting landscapes at a time when history paintings and portraits were the fashion. Sometimes sharp and sarcastic, and often depressed, Constable in fact possessed a warm gift for intimate friendship. This is revealed in his letters to John Dunthorne, village handyman and housepainter, and to his best friend and patron, archdeacon John Fisher, to whom he wrote: 'I have a kingdom of my own, both fertile and populous - my landscape and my children'. In recent times, after a period of relative ignominy, Constable's influence on British landscape painting has been re-acknowledged, he has been more widely exhibited and his reputation has been reestablished as one of the masters of his genre. This important and absorbing biography explores his life and work, and highlights the dramatic tension between the two.
Constable's England
Author: Graham ReynoldsPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993356
Category : Art, English
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
John Constable's Correspondence
Author: John ConstableRomanticism & the School of Nature
Author: Colta Feller IvesPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999648
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This volume presents 115 drawings and paintings from the holdings of collector Karen B. Cohen. The 19th-century French and English works include landscapes, portraits, figure compositions, and still lifes by great artists of the romantic period and of the Barbizon and Realist schools, beginning with Prud'hon and ending with Seurat. Among the highlights is a group of little known works by Courbet and a series of cloud studies by Constable. Ives (curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) provides documentation and commentary for each work, placing it within the context of the artist's development and connecting it to contemporary artistic trends and innovations. Curator Elizabeth E. Barker contributed entries on Constable and Bonington. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Constable and His Drawings
Author: Ian Fleming-WilliamsPublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This collection of 42 drawings, never previously published together, gives new insight into Constable's technical and emotional approach into his work. With the help of copious comparative illustrations and exhaustively detailed research drawn from numerous contemporary sources, the author builds up a portrait of the artist, his background and family life. The luscious quality of Constable's painting typifies an idealized image of the English countryside in the 18th centruy. Such familiar paintings as Greenham Lock and Flatford Mill were not captured in spontaneous bursts, but were committed to canvas only after numerous working-drawings and oil sketches had been completed. This is the first full-length study of the subject, presenting much hitherto unpublished material and offering a balanced and pertinent assessment of Constable and his work.
Landscape and Ideology
Author: Ann BerminghamPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066236
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In this interdisciplinary study, Ann Bermingham explores the complex, ambiguous, and often contradictory relationship between English landscape painting and the socio-economic changes that accompanied enclosure and the Industrial Revolution.
Correspondence
Author: John ConstablePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
An Archetypal Constable
Author: Peter BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
What is the significance of Constable's paintings and 'Constable country' for the contemporary postmodern era? Peter Bishop brings a new, post-Jungian or archetypal perspective to bear on Constable's paintings and 'Constable country', addressing also the broader issues of the cultural psychology of art and the role of imagined landscapes in the formation of modern psychological and cultural ideas. It forms a companion volume to the author's earlier work, The Myth of Shangri-La, which looked at Western fantasies of the 'Other' as expressed in the creation of images of an exotic place. The present volume charts the corresponding fantasies of the 'Self': 'Constable country' provides a lens to examine the fostering of a sense of identity - individual, cultural and national. It will be of value to all those with an interest in art history, cultural history, psychology and cultural geography.