On the Viewing Platform
The Panorama between Canvas and Screen
ISBN: HB: 9780300184792,
Yale University Press,
November 2020
324 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 160 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
324 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 160 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its 18th-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-...
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70.00 GBP
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American Pre-Raphaelites
Radical Realists
ISBN: HB: 9780300242522,
Yale University Press,
April 2019
312 pp., 26,0x23,5 cm, 210 colour illus.
312 pp., 26,0x23,5 cm, 210 colour illus.
Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer –...
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47.50 GBP
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Picturesque and Sublime
Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance
ISBN: PB: 9780300233537,
Yale University Press,
March 2018
192 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 120 colour illus.
192 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 120 colour illus.
Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. British artists including...
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22.50 GBP
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Edwardian Opulence
British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300190250,
Yale University Press,
March 2013
420 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 350 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
420 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 350 colour images, 30 black&white illus.
Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency and the starkly conflicting depiction of the decade as one of intense political, economic, and artistic instability leading...
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55.00 GBP
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Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia
The Manton Collection of British Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300179668,
Yale University Press,
July 2012
272 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 447 colour images, 9 black&white illus.
272 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 447 colour images, 9 black&white illus.
Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007,...
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45.00 GBP
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Reading the Pre-Raphaelites
ISBN: PB: 9780300177336,
Yale University Press,
March 2012
192 pp., 23,4x16,5 cm, 98 colour images, 21 black&white illus.
192 pp., 23,4x16,5 cm, 98 colour images, 21 black&white illus.
Noted for its vivid colours, elaborate use of symbols, and dedication to close observation of the natural world, the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists combines a deep engagement with the past and a modern realism that exemplifies the concerns of the age...
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22.50 GBP
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