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Nature Into Art
This new edition features 100 of the finest examples of English landscape watercolour paintings, by 70 artists, taken from the British Museum's own collection. A wide variety of landscapes range in date from the earliest topographical works to those of Cozens, Girtin, Turner and Constable.
Common Land in English Painting, 1700-1850
An examination of the treatment of common land in the work of English painters, at a time when much of it was to disappear forever. A most elegantly written book that calmly knocked many entrenched but erroneous notions about British landscape painting firmly on the head. Longlisted and commended by the judges of the 2013 William M. B. Berger prize forBritish art history. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, much of England's common land was eradicated by the processes of parliamentary enclosure. However, despite the fact that the landscape was frequentlyviewed as unproductive, outmoded and unsightly, many British landscape painters of the time - including Constable, Gainsborough ...
Landscape and Ideology
In this interdisciplinary study, Ann Bermingham explores the complex, ambiguous, and often contradictory relationship between English landscape painting and the socio-economic changes that accompanied enclosure and the Industrial Revolution.
Alfred East
A biography of Alfred East, the most significant figure in English landscape painting in the decades before the First World War, following in the direct line of Constable and Turner.
Masters of English Landscape
Presents one hundred and fifty masterpieces by famous artists
Glorious Nature
This aptly named volume brings together 91 masterpieces in oil and watercolor by 44 artists, the zenith of England's sublime landscape tradition. These beautiful, innovative works represent the most talented artists of the genre -- including Gainsborough, Wright of Derby, Turner, and Constable.
Unquiet Landscape
Christopher Neves classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states of mind? Painting, says Neve, is a process of finding out, and landscape can be its thesis. What he is writing is not precisely art history: it is about pictures, about landscape and about thought. Over the years, he was able to have discussions with many of the thirty or so artists he focuses on, the inspiration for the book having come from his talks with Ben Nicholson; and he has immersed himself in their work, their countryside, their ideas. Because he is a painter himself, and an expert on 2...
British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century
Discusses the beginnings of landscape painting in Britain to the rise of the classical tradition under the Italian influence; the topographical tradition; landscape artists who drew inspiration from visits to Italy; the tradition of the Netherlands and the rise of the Picturesque.
