The Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Art: 10 British Pictures, 1740-1840 - Softcover

Wark, Robert R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873281853 ISBN 13: 9780873281850

Publisher: Huntington Library Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Ten representative works of art in the world-renowned Huntington collection illustrate the richness and versatility of British painting during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Artists at this time employed many styles, borrowing from ancient Greece, India and China, from the Byzantine, and from the just-closing Rococo period. Nearly 100 colour illustrations place the ten primary pictures in artistic context.

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Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, European art was a maelstrom of various styles and influences. Robert R. Wark (Early British Drawings in the Huntington Collection), former curator of the Huntington Art Collections in California, explains this pivotal era in his lucid, concise volume, The Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Art: Ten British Pictures 1740-1840. Wark uses 10 paintings and drawings by the likes of Hogarth, Reynolds, Blake, Constable and Turner to illuminate the competing trends of the period, showing how they were sometimes embodied in the work of a single artist and how they eventually gave way to modern art.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Huntington Library Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0873281853
• ISBN 13: 9780873281850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 135