Gainsborough

By:

William Vaughan

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Paperback / softback

Series:

World of Art

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Gainsborough is one of the most appealing artists of the eighteenth century. Renowned for such elegant portraits as The Blue Boy and Countess Howe, he also pioneered a new form of landscape with a moody sensibility that prefigured the Romantic movement. He was a brilliant draftsman, and his art is full of inventiveness and visual delight. William Vaughan draws on recently discovered material to provide a fresh perspective on both the life and art of this master. He shows how closely Gainsborough's innovative manner can be connected to social and political developments in Britain, in particular the celebration of original genius in a time of burgeoning entrepreneurial commercialism. Above all, he demonstrates how, beneath the artist's charm, there lay a bedrock of shrewd observation and pictorial intelligence that gives his work a value for all time.

Author Biography:

William Vaughan is a British Art Historian and has been Emeritus Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London since 2003.

Release date NZ

March 11th, 2002

Author

William Vaughan

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

104 Illustrations, black and white; 68 Illustrations, color

Pages

224

Series

World of Art

Dimensions

150x210x15

ISBN-13

9780500203583

Product ID

2529612

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