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
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.
Swiftly Sterneward
Swiftly Sterneward - 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 Swiftly Sterneward write by W. B. Gerard. This book was released on 2011-04-07. Swiftly Sterneward available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. These include a reading of Eliot in the shadow of Pope; a comparison of Gainsborough’s final paintings and Sterne’s Sentimental Journey; a study of Johnson and casuistry; a discussion of Smollett’s view of slavery in Roderick Random; a bibliographical study of a Lyttelton poem; a comparison of Swift and Nietzsche; and two essays about Fielding’s Joseph Andrews. Laurence Sterne, the primary focus of Professor New’s scholarship, is also the focus of the final five essays, which treat Sterne in contexts as disparate as the kabbalah, abolitionist discourse, local English church politics, the use of the fragment, and, finally, the culture of modernity.
From Gainsborough to Constable
From Gainsborough to Constable - 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 From Gainsborough to Constable write by . This book was released on 1991. From Gainsborough to Constable available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the catalogue to the exhibition held in summer 1991 at Gainsborough House, Sudbury, focusing on Constable and the artists whose work was important to him in his formative years - Gainsborough, Wilson, Beaumont and Farington. This exhibition complements the 1991 Tate Gallery exhibition which omits Constable's early work.
Landscape and Ideology
Landscape and Ideology - 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 Landscape and Ideology write by Ann Bermingham. This book was released on 1986. Landscape and Ideology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
