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Common land in English painting, 1700-1850
Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'The scenery of common ground'; Chapter 1: The Prospect; Chapter 2: Idylls; Chapter 3: Drawn from Nature; Chapter 4: Aesthetics and Perceptions; Chapter 5: Loss; Chapter 6: The Urban Scene; Conclusion: Common Land...
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| Formatua: | Online Resource Liburua |
| Hizkuntza: | English |
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Woodbridge
: Boydell Press
, 2012
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| Saila: | Garden and landscape history
v. 4 |
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1x73dj |
| Antzeko dokumentuak: | Erscheint auch als:
Common land in English painting, 1700-1850 |
| Notas de Autor: | Ian Waites |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography |
| Gaia: | Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'The scenery of common ground'; Chapter 1: The Prospect; Chapter 2: Idylls; Chapter 3: Drawn from Nature; Chapter 4: Aesthetics and Perceptions; Chapter 5: Loss; Chapter 6: The Urban Scene; Conclusion: Common Land, the 'Old Culture' and the Modern World; Notes to the Text; Bibliogaphy; Index; Backcover. 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 frequently viewed as unproductive, outmoded and unsightly, many British landscape painters of the time - including Constable, Gainsborough and Turner - resolutely continued to depict it. This book is the first full study of how they did so, using evidence drawn not only from art-historical picture analysis, but from contemporary poems and novels, and the contemporary pamphlets, essays and reports that advanced the rhetoric of both agricultural improvement and new theories on landscape aesthetics. It highlights a deep-rooted social and cultural attachment to the common field landscape, and demonstrates that common land played a significant but - until now - underestimated role in both the history of English art and of the formation of an English national identity, reflecting what are still highly sensitive issues of progress, nostalgia and loss within the English countryside. Recasting common land as a recurrent facet of English culture in the modern period, the numerous paintings, drawings and prints featured in this book give the reader a comprehensive and evocative sense of what this now almost wholly lost landscape looked like in its hey-day. Ian Waites is Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Design at the University of Lincoln |
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| Alearen deskribapena: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Deskribapen fisikoa: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 181 pages, [16] pages of plates) illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 1283665956 1782040447 1843837617 6613978450 9781283665957 9781782040446 9781843837619 9786613978455 |
