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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Investigation of the significance of artists’ materials and particularly their oils pigments and varnishes has lagged behind other forms of art historical enquiry. This exhibition devised by John Gage the noted student of J. M. W. Turner and of colour theory is intended to redress that balance. Dr. Gage University Lecturer in the Department of the History of Art has introduced many students to the complexities of visual perception by reference in his teaching to the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum. He has been helped in the selection and cataloguing of the exhibition by Jane Munro Assistant Keeper in our Department of Paintings. Drawings and Prints from the holdings of which an extensive choice has been made. The exhibition is presented as a logical sequel to the first in the special s?fies here of which the catalogue costs are sustained by Christie’s: Drawing Masters and their Manuals (1987-88) in which Miss Munro was also closely involved. Again we are grateful to Christie’s for their imaginative support of another pioneering venture. Since the Fitzwilliam inherited the Founder’s drawing of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitoline made by reference to contemporary manuals of instruction the desire to upprehend at least a part of the mystery of creativity has lurked in the Museum. Sir Sydney Cockerell its greatest Director in the first half of the twentieth century made it overt. He it was who built up the collection of artists’ sketchbooks. Most recently we have acquired for our Hamilton Kerr Institute the nineteenth-century archive of a once flourishing artists colourman Roberson and in this Dr. Gage has found an important source for his researches. (LL)