Turner: The Second Decade : Watercolours and Drawing from the Turner Bequest, 1800-1810

Arts & Photography

UPSTONE, Robert

Individual Artists

Univ of Washington Pr

This richly illustrated Tiny Folio™ volume surveys British painting, watercolors, and sculpture from the sixteenth century to the present. With masters such as William Blake, William Hogarth, George Stubbs, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney, the Tate Gallery offers work to please every taste. The gallery, which was opened in London in the summer of 1897 by the Prince of Wales, is best known for its modern art collections, but-as this little compendium makes wonderfully clear-it encompasses the full sweep of British art, from ornate aristocratic portraits and vivacious hunting scenes to the Pre-Raphaelites languid femmes fatales.

Treasures of British Art: Tate Gallery (Tiny Folio Series)

Serota, Nicholas

History & Criticism

Abbeville Press

This book, which accompanies a retrospective exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London in January 2005, reappraises an artist who, at the time of his death in 1931, was probably the best-known painter in Britain. The book reveals the full variety of William Orpen's work from his highly accomplished portraits, his revitalization of the nude and the conversation piece, to his extraordinary allegories and war paintings. It analyzes the series of self-portraits, many mocking his own character with a mixture of humor and bitterness, that are a particular feature of his oeuvre. His experiences as an official war artist in France from 1917 to 1919 made him cynical of politicians. Although he painted brilliant portraits of these very men, and of generals and war heroes, he also produced some bitter allegories of war. The war years form the climax of both the book and the exhibition.

William Orpen: Politics, Sex and Death

Foster, R. F.

Jenkins, David Fraser

Philip Wilson Publishers

An analysis and examination of key sketchbooks of the Romantic period, featuring the works of such artists as David, Delacroix, Fuseli, Goya, and Turner

Sketchbooks of the Romantics

Wellfleet

A mini guide to the Tate's art treasures in full colour.

Treasures of British art: Tate Gallery (Tiny Folios)

TATE GALLERY

Turner, the second decade: Watercolours and drawings from the Turner bequest, 1800-1810

Tate Gallery

The Pre-Raphaelite Dream showcases the range, virtuosity, and vision of the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Edward Burne-Jones, among others. Their familiar images are brought together here with undeservedly lesser-known paintings by major artists and works by friends or followers of the Brotherhood members, as well as exceptional but rarely seen Pre-Raphaelite drawings. The Pre-Raphaelites created one of the great revolutionary movements of 19th-century British art, rejecting both the academic dryness of classicism and the vapid sentimentality of so-called genre painting. Instead, using subjects taken from modern life, medievalism, and literature, they sought to explore such contemporary issues as gender, marriage, sex, and the fulfillment of love. Published to accompany an international traveling exhibition, this lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh look at a much-studied movement in the history of art.

The Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Drawings and Paintings from the Tate Collection

Tate

The Camden Town Group of British painters chronicled the changes in both British society and the city of London in the years immediately before and during World War I. Extensively illustrated, Robert Upstone’s book investigates how artists Spencer Gore, Harold Gilman, Walter Sickert, and other members of this group reacted to the changing face of metropolitan existence. Published to accompany the first major exhibition of the Camden Town Group in twenty years, this book discusses how these radically modern artists absorbed and refined European influences, how genre portraits of working-class subjects allowed them to explore the relationship of the individual and the city, and how Sickert, Gore and Gilman created images of women that were more overtly sexual than the imagery produced by their colleagues in continental Europe.

Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group

Tate Publishing

Tiger Books

This stunning book, written by Robert Upstone and published to accompany the exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery in March 2009 brings Sickerts Venice pictures together for the first time

Sickert in Venice

Reference

Scala Books

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