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Nineteenth Century British Painting
Luke Herrmann
Nineteenth Century British Painting
(ISBN 9781900357173)
was published as a paperback original in November 2000
488 pages 246 x 189 mm 82 colour and 241 black & white illustrations
£29.95
Comments from readers and reviewers
Richard Dorment in Daily Telegraph: ‘For those with a more serious interest in art history, [it] is the best-written introduction to the subject. From Romanticism to Impressionism, it is an amazingly comprehensive chronological survey.’
Tim Hilton in Independent on Sunday: ‘... a judicious account written with more style than most art history text books...’Frank Whitford in Sunday Times: ‘Luke Herrmann’s comprehensive survey...I know I shall repeatedly refer to it.’
Felicity Owen in Country Life: ‘... a long overdue and invaluable survey of a remarkable period when Britain emerged from the dark ages and art was established as a respected profession...This compact paperback is a splendid beginner’s source of information about 19th century taste and the major artists.’
Choice (US libraries): ‘Outstanding Academic Title, 2001.’ ‘A superb publication, highly recommended.’
Richard Cork in The Times: ‘...this concise, well-balanced and immensely knowledgeable survey.’
British Art Journal: ‘The black hole that has been the period of British art history around 1800 has been filled in admirable style by [this] new book. It is immensely useful to have such a lucid and authoritative guide through the period after Reynolds’s death until the emergence of...Turner... It is perhaps for his invaluable -- firm and fair -- accounts of lesser figures later in the century... that the book will prove to have made its most lasting contribution. The colour plates are particularly well done and the black and white solid and plentiful. It is altogether a most satisfying volume, full of good things.’
John Spurling in Royal Academy Magazine: ‘...a model of calm, clear and concise exposition...an impressive record of the skilful inventiveness and wonderfully diverse individuality of a concourse of British masters, major and minor.’
Description
Nineteenth Century British Painting provides a succinct and informative chronological survey of a century of British painting which produced a great variety of work. It progresses from the beginnings of Romanticism in the late eighteenth century to the British adoption of Impressionism in the late nineteenth, dividing this prolific period into nine parts. In each part the work of the major figures in particular movements or genres is discussed and analysed, and each painter is presented in a biographical context. The artists are set in the framework of their historical, social and economic background. The majority of the paintings and drawings that are examined in detail are reproduced in the 323 plates.
<> The book is intended to be used more as an introduction, and where appropriate as a textbook, than as a work of reference, although its arrangement will enable readers to obtain fuller information about individual artists, with longer sections devoted to such major figures as Lawrence, Turner, Constable, Rossetti, Leighton and Whistler.
<> The last decade has seen a growing interest in nineteenth century British art in this country, and also in the United States and on the Continent. During this time much has been published in the field and there has been a succession of important exhibitions. Even so, there is no up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the whole century on the market. Nineteenth Century British Painting fills the gap, meeting the need for such a book among undergraduate and graduate students, and among connoisseurs and collectors. It will also have a strong appeal for people with a general interest in the period.
Author
Luke Herrmann is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Leicester, and has lectured on British art for many years. Before joining the History of Art Department at Leicester in 1967, he worked for a decade in the Department of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He has published numerous books and articles, including Ruskin and Turner (1968), British Landscape Painting of the Eighteenth Century (1973), Turner (1975), Paul and Thomas Sandby (1986), Turner Prints (1990) and Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner (2001: co-editor).
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