The Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough - Brossura

Cormack, Malcolm

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521388872 ISBN 13: 9780521388870

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Riassunto

This is a fresh introduction to the art of Thomas Gainsborough, who was one of England's greatest artists and the creator, with Joshua Reynolds, of an independent English school. Gainsborough has long been a popular and attractive figure in the history of English art, but this book shows that he was more than the well-known painter of The Blue Boy. His role as a prototype for the modern idea of the 'artist as romantic' is discussed, while his deep knowledge of the art of the past is revealed to demonstrate his eclectic yet individual reworking of older styles. Gainsborough's own personal style, based on the early eighteenth-century example of the French rococo, was developed by him into a highly imaginative art which - with his love of music - had analogies with musical improvisation.

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This is a fresh introduction to the art of Thomas Gainsborough and shows that he was more than the well-known painter of The Blue Boy. Gainsborough's own personal style was developed by him into a highly imaginative art by demonstrating his eclectic yet individual reworking of older styles.

Contenuti:

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Plates with commentaries 1 – 75; Select Bibliography.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521388872
• ISBN 13: 9780521388870
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 198