In the late-19th century, contact with French Impressionist ideas meant that British artists' discontent with academic Victorian art became transmuted into a new concept of the role of art and the artist. In a new awareness of painting, disparate artists merged and refined their ideas on colour, light and form into an Impressionistic style that is distinctly British. Artists such as Philip Wilson Steer, George Clausen, Roderic O'Conor and Dame Laura Knight depicted an enormous variety of urban and rural scenes, from fashionable tennis parties, music-hall entertainers and laundry shops, to goose girls, boat-builders, turnip harvesters and picnickers. This comprehensive book surveys the developments, debates and personalities of those who were among the foremost British artists of the early-20th century, such as Philip Wilson Steer, Walter Richard Sickert, Sir John Lavery and Sir William Rothenstein.
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British impressionism, like its American counterpart, has skulked in the shadows of Monet, Renoir and other French favorites. Here, in 132 excellent plates and an engaging text, is a comprehensive survey of a movement that wore many faces, from Laura Knight's intensely radiant beach scenes to Walter Sickert's urban world refracted through a restricted palette and quirky narrative technique. There is no doubt that the British impressionists are cooler and more controlled than the French: Henry Herbert La Thangue's landscapes, for example, impress with their solidity even as their lyric poetry transports the viewer. Yet the British were also adept at recording transitory moments, middle-class pleasures, effects of light and atmosphere. McConkey, who teaches in England, follows the vagaries of a movement enlivened by American expatriates James Whistler and John Singer Sargent and French expatriate Lucien Pissarro, son of the famous impressionist, Camille.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Through seven chapters Head of the Department of Historical and Critical Studies, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic, Kenneth McConkey in very readable prose considers various aspects of British Impressionism including the difficulties of defining it and whether Impressionism is British or French. The book includes notes to the text, a select bibliography, a biographical index of artists which offers a paragraph for each artist, and an index.
The book is illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, 132 illustrations in all of which 70 are in colour. The colour images are half to full-page in size, the black and white vary from the quite small to full-page. A quick flick through the book gives the impression that this book is profusely illustrated, with the majority of the images quite large; they run with the text and appear if possible on the same page as their mention in the text, and they are well captioned. Artists discussed here include: Bastien-Lepage, Blanche, Brabazon, Bramley, J A Brown, F Brown, Clausen, Conder, Dewhurst, East, Forbes, de Glehn, Guthrie, Harrison, Henry, Hornel, Jamieson, Kennedy, H Knight, L Knight, La Thangue, Lavery, Legros, Ludovici jun, Lhermitte, MacColl, Maitland, Moore, O'Meara, Osborne, Pissaro, Rothenstein, Roussel, Sargent, Sickert, Starr, Steer, Stevenson, E Stott, W Stott of Oldham, Tonks, Tuke, Walton, and Whistler. While this book is very well illustrated it is let down rather by the quality of reproduction, some of the colour plates are dull and lifeless, and some along with some of the black and white images lack detail in the dark areas.
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