Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Plates bright and vivid. Year 1968. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Before 1760 the majority of British artists were portraitists but in the following decades a new range of subjects was given legitimacy and a whole new spectrum of artistic conceptions. purposes and preoccupations came into being. A scientific interest in nature inspired Gains- borough Constable and Turner to paint their experimental landscapes; William Holman Hunt and Ford Madox Brown to portray the optical effects of light; and George Stubbs and Edwin Landseer to analyze the anatomy and psychol- ogy of animals. A lively new interest in the past opened a rich lode of themes for such artists as Gavin Hamilton Benjamin West and the Pre- Raphaelites and a growing fascination with psychological responses prompted William Blake and Henry Fuseli to probe the dark re- cesses of the human spirit. Romantic Art in Britain the catalogue of a major exhibition held in 1968 at the Philadel- phia Museum of Art and at The Detroit Institute of Arts presents a large number of paintings and drawings by these and many other British artists that together reveal the brilliance and complexity of the English Romantic school. (MP)