Towards the Sun :
The Artist-Traveller at the Turn of the Twentieth Century /
Kenneth McConkey.
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| Summary: | Kenneth McConkey takes us around the world to show how British travelers, equipped with cameras and canvases, created artworks commemorating scenes and experiences in southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, and Japan. He introduces us to a generation of painters, trained in academies and artists' colonies in Europe that acted as crèches for those who would go on to explore life and landscape further afield. With rich illustrations, the book explores key sites visited by artist-travelers and investigates a wide range of artists, including Frank Brangwyn, Mary Cameron, Alfred East, John Lavery, Arthur Melville, and Mortimer Menpes, as well as other under-researched British artists. Drawing the strands together, it redefines the picturesque by considering issues of visualization and verisimilitude, dissemination, and aesthetic value. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Paul Holberton Publishing,
2021.
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| Notes: | Color maps on endpapers. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Kenneth McConkey is completing an Emeritus Fellowship in Art History at the Leverhulme Trust. The author of numerous books, exhibition catalogues and articles, on British Art between 1880 and 1920, he is working on a major exhibition on the work of Sir John Lavery for the National Gallery of Ireland. Physical description: vii pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 260 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 x 25 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9781913645083 1913645088 |
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