Five Centuries of British Painting
From Holbein to Hodgkin
Andrew Wilton
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| ‘For those interested in the broad expanse of British art, Andrew Wilton’s book is an ideal starting point’ | | – House & Garden |
Britain has played a key part in the history of the last five centuries, and its art reflects this in absorbing and complex ways. Andrew Wilton, Keeper and Senior Research Fellow at Tate Britain, traces the story of British painting from its hesitant beginnings under the influence of Holbein through its maturity in the time of Hogarth and Reynolds, when it reflected a prosperous society with growing imperial influence.
The pioneering role of Constable and Turner in the revolutions of the Romantic period is fully explored, and the enigmatic position of artists in Victorian England, when a stiff moral code came into conflict with the uncertainties of the age of Darwin. Consistent undercurrents revealed include Britain’s preference for the real world (landscape, portraiture) as against ‘high’ art and abstraction.
Andrew Wilton offers new insights into the great personalities of British painting, and assesses afresh the latest flowering, in which many threads of modern art come together in sometimes startling guises.
Also of interest:
Dictionary of British Art
Turner in His Time by Andrew Wilton |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500203490 | | ISBN-13 978-0500203491 | | | | 21.0 x 15.0 cm | | Paperback | | 256pp | | 183 illustrations, 71 in colour | | First published 2002 | | | | £8.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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