Description
| Product ID: | 9781138342255 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Revivals |
| Title: | The Essence of Art |
| Subtitle: | Victorian Advice on the Practice of Painting |
| Authors: | Author: Craig Harrison |
| Page Count: | 177 |
| Subjects: | Theory of art, Theory of art, History of art, Paintings and painting, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Painting & paintings, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 and 1900. First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 and 1900. It is a fascinating collection of Victorian instruction on how and what to paint, linked to crucial advice about art, its meaning and its relation to contemporary life, given by practising artists, important and often popular in their time, but whose lectures and writings are long overdue for reappraisal: Leslie, Hamerton, O’Neil, Poynter, Watts, Leighton, Armitage, Quilter and Herkomer. Here, beyond the familiar voices of Ruskin, Whistler and Pater, we have a whole range of experience from an age in which issues about painting were hotly debated by large numbers of people: professional artists, amateurs, critics, gallery-goers and Academy students. This anthology brings back to life the humour, seriousness, ambitions, eccentricities and controversies of people whose work shaped the nature of mainstream Victorian art. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-02-12 |
