Watts Chapel: A Guide to the Symbols of Mary Watts' Arts and Crafts Masterpiece - Softcover

Bills, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856676926 ISBN 13: 9780856676925

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

Compton Cemetery Chapel is a grade I listed building, created by Mary Watts (1849-1938) between 1894 and 1904. This new book on the building is a guide to the symbolism of the glorious Arts and Crafts patterns that decorate its interior and exterior. Mary's book, "The Word in the Pattern", which outlined her ideas for the symbols, along with the sources that she drew upon, forms the basis of the text. Illustrating all the decorative detail of the chapel, it shows the richness of meaning with which Mary infused its imagery. This guide makes Mary's ideas clear to all who wish to know the meanings of the striking figurative and abstract symbols that adorn the building.

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About the Author

Mark Bills is curator of Watts Gallery. Formally he was senior curator of paintings, prints and drawings at the Museum of London and visual arts officer at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum. He has published widely on eighteenth and particularly nineteenth century art, including William Powell Frith and G.F. Watts, Victorian Visionary, and numerous articles for magazines including the Burlington Magazine and Apollo. He has curated national and international exhibitions including A Victorian Salon, at the Dahesh Museum, New York and Satirizing London, at the Museum of London with the accompanying book The Art of Satire: London in Caricature, also published by Philip Wilson Publishers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0856676926
• ISBN 13: 9780856676925
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 64