Buy this book on-line HEMMING,CHARLES: : BRITISH LANDSCAPE PAINTERS: A History and GazetteerLONDON.VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD.,1989. ISBN 0575039574.
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dj,1st edn,9-224pp [paginated] includes an intro,A History comprising 5 chapters,
A Gazetteer (Abingdon to Zennor),profuse single+double page colour and b/w artwork illustrations throughout the text and the book,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page,double-page colour pictorial illustrated title page,acknowledgements,
contents list/table and list of illustrations.
Landscape painting has always been the distinctive British art form which,despite
whims and fashions,has remained fairly constant over 250 years.Yet,with its woods
and waterfalls,its ruined abbeys and wild mountain scenery,its labourers stooking corn or tending cattle,it has all too often been a lie to current reality,an idealised image,a georgic myth to mask a grimmer truth,as Charles Hemming's entertaining history,which forms the first
part of this book,reveals.
It follows the course of landscape painting from its early evolution from prospect painting to its emergence as an art form with painters like Francis Place,
Thomas Robins and Matthew Read,through the
era of the Industrial Revolution and Romanticism to its golden heyday in the Victorian age with painters as diverse as the Pre-Raphaelites,Wiilaim P. Frith,
Edmund Blair Leighton,John William Waterhouse and the English Impressionists,
and through the 20thC - from Roger Fry and
Paul Nash to Richard Eurich and the Brotherhood of Ruralists of the 1970's.The
book includes over 450 artists,some giants,some who deserve to be better known.While the Gazetteer,which forms the second part of the book,covers an A-Z of over 280 places where landcape painters have lived and worked.
A companion book/volume to 'BRITISH
PAINTERS OF THE COAST AND SEA: A History and Gazetteer.',also by the same author.
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