Gainsborough: World of Art Series - Brossura

Vaughan, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 050020358X ISBN 13: 9780500203583

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2002

Riassunto

Gainsborough is one of the most appealing artists of the eighteenth century. Renowned for such elegant portraits as The Blue Boy and Countess Howe, he also pioneered a new form of landscape with a moody sensibility that prefigured the Romantic movement. He was a brilliant draftsman, and his art is full of inventiveness and visual delight. William Vaughan draws on recently discovered material to provide a fresh perspective on both the life and art of this master. He shows how closely Gainsborough's innovative manner can be connected to social and political developments in Britain, in particular the celebration of original genius in a time of burgeoning entrepreneurial commercialism. Above all, he demonstrates how, beneath the artist's charm, there lay a bedrock of shrewd observation and pictorial intelligence that gives his work a value for all time.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

William Vaughan is Professor of the History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London. Among his other books are British Painting: The Golden Age and Romanticism and Art, both of which are also in the World of Art series.

Product Description:

Book by Vaughan William

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 050020358X
• ISBN 13: 9780500203583
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224