Victorian painting / Christopher Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Christopher, 1941-2009.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Victorian.

Physical Description:

384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Edition:

First North American edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bulfinch Press : Little, Brown and Co., [1999]

Summary:

The Victorian era and its aftermath were the backdrop to one of the great flowerings of British art. Over the last few decades Victorian painting has enjoyed a huge renewal in popularity, and this book offers a compelling and beautifully illustrated survey from an authority in the field.

The reign of Queen Victoria was a time of great social and spiritual change, and of energy and endeavor that translated itself into a ceaseless quest for new forms of expression. Wood, one of the leading experts who has not only studied but also bought, owned, and sold examples of everything he writes about, takes us through the artistry of Edward Burne-Jones, Lord Leighton, D.G. Rossetti, J. Willam Waterhouse, Herbert Draper and Albert Moore showing the succession of movements that characterized the Victorian period.

ISBN:

0821223267

OCLC:

43610086