Gainsborough - Softcover

Gainsborough. With contributions by Rica Jones, Martin Postle, Diane Perkins, Christine Riding and Louise Hayward.

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Buchbeschreibung Original softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 296 p., many ill. Slightly rubbed, overall very good and clean. / Leicht berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Thomas Gainsborough is acknowledged as one of the masters of eighteenth-century art. This catalogue, published to accompany a major international exhibition covering Gainsborough's entire career, presents an artist whose work is enormously visually engaging and diverse, yet is also intellectually vibrant. At a time of increasing tensions in the British art world, Gainsborough's work provided a vital alternative to the theory-led practice of the new Royal Academy In their essay, Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone explore Gainsborough's dynamic involvement with the social world, as he endeavoured to forge an art that engaged meaningfully with contemporary life. Martin Postle and Rica Jones examine the development of Gainsborough's technique and studio practice, from his early works painted in Sudbury, Suffolk, to the grand painting room and gallery at Schomberg House, London, where he spent his final years. The astonishing range of works illustrated fully demonstrates the originality of Gainsborough's art. The paintings Gainsborough chose for display in the new exhibition venues of London are grouped together, providing a valuable insight into how he wished his career and art to be understood. Other sections explore his precocious early work, his subtle approach to the lucrative world of fashionable portraiture, his diverse representations of the burgeoning ideals of Sensibility, the often pointed social commentary behind his seductive landscapes, and the exploratory nature of his last works. This catalogue provides new and refreshing insights into Gainsborough as an artist who succeeded in creating an experimental and modern art for his own time, and whose works retain a continuing significance for British culture today. - Michael Rosenthal teaches history of art at the University of Warwick and is the author of many studies on eighteenth- and-nineteenth century art, including Constable: The Painter and His Landscape (1983) and The Art of Thomas Gainsborough (1999). Martin Myrone is a Curator at Tate Britain and the author of Henry Fuseli (2001) and George Stubbs (2002). ISBN 9781854373977 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1607. Artikel-Nr. 1184723

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