Places of the mind : British watercolor landscapes, 1850-1950
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Places of the mind : British watercolor landscapes, 1850-1950
Thames & Hudson, 2017
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  France
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-187) and index
List of works: p. 178-183
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a landscape but also its emotional and spiritual impact - landscape as 'places of the mind', as the critic Geoffrey Grigson put it - is the focus of this fascinating new study of British watercolours produced between 1850 and 1950. Drawing on the British Museum's impressive collection, this book explores artists' spiritual quests to capture the essence of landscape and convey a sense of place. Artists of the later 19th and early 20th centuries drew on earlier traditions but developed and extended the genre through their imaginative, personal responses to the artistic, cultural and social upheavals of the time. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, this book includes works by Victorian artists Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Poynter and by many well known 20th-century artists, such as John and Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore, some of which have never previously been published.
Table of Contents
Introduction * The 'tormentingly elusive' art of drawing landscape, Kim Sloan * A new 'golden age' : The 'modern' landscape watercolour, Jessica Feather * South Country and other Imagined Places, Anna Gruetzner Robins * Representation and reality in West Country landscapes, Sam Smiles * Some Versions of Pastoral, Frances Carey
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