Early Gainsborough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Gainsborough write by Mark Bills. This book was released on 2018. Early Gainsborough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Art of Thomas Gainsborough
The Art of Thomas Gainsborough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Thomas Gainsborough write by Michael Rosenthal. This book was released on 1999. The Art of Thomas Gainsborough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The book begins by charting the geography and professional tactics of a career that took Gainsbourgh from London to Suffolk, Bath and eventually back to London. Rosenthal looks at such wide-ranging topics as how artists manipulated the press, the issue of likeness in portraiture, how rivalries between painters were handled in public and private, and the pressures of the public exhibition. The second part of the book explores the manifestations of Gainsborugh's aesthetic in portraiture, landscape painting and paintings of sensibility. Rosenthal concludes with a discussion of the problem of defining a role and proper form for the fine arts at a time of rapid social change and innovation."--BOOK JACKET.
Gainsborough's Vision
Gainsborough's Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gainsborough's Vision write by Amal Asfour. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Gainsborough's Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman
Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman write by Aileen Ribeiro. This book was released on 2010. Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "grand" portrait has long been understood to have played a pivotal part in the self-definition of Georgian society: not only was a likeness presented to a curious public, but social station and financial rank were also advertised, if not flaunted. Leca, curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum, claims that in addition portraiture was the vehicle for "modernist" ideas. He uses as an example the museum's portrait by Thomas Gainsborough titled Ann Ford, the subject of this exhibition catalogue. In a wide-ranging essay, Leca shows how Gainsborough, the most maverick of the period's portraitists, deliberately piqued establishment taste by seeking out and painting "modern women"--courtesans, dancers, and musicians--who mirrored his own edgy persona, and by rendering them in a provocative and "unfinished" style, thus challenging viewers both morally and visually. In a second essay, Ribeiro (emer., Courtauld Institute, London) discusses the decorum surrounding female portraiture and how Gainsborough's picture deviated or violated accepted notions through pose, dress, and countenance. As an authority on period costume, Ribeiro offers an essay that is rich in observations regarding the social nuances of female attire. Ludwig (doctoral candidate, Boston Univ.) offers a survey of the portraiture of British "progressive" women. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty. Reviewed by L. R. Matteson.
Gainsborough
Gainsborough - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gainsborough write by James Hamilton. This book was released on 2017-08-10. Gainsborough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer ** 'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his finger ends. He was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a shockingly loose, libidinous manner and a volatility that could lead him to slash his paintings. James Hamilton reveals the artist in his many contexts: the talented Suffolk lad, transported to the heights of fashion; the rake-on-the-make in London, learning his craft in the shadow of Hogarth; the society-portrait painter in Bath and London who earned huge sums by charming the right people into his studio. With fresh insights into original sources, Gainsborough: A Portrait transforms our understanding of this fascinating man, and enlightens the century that bore him.
