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Gainsborough's vision [electronic resource] / Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Asfour, Amal.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
- Gainsborough, Thomas.
- Landscape painting, British--18th century.
- Landscape painting, British.
- Painters--Great Britain.
- Painters.
- Portrait painting, British--18th century.
- Portrait painting, British.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Thomas Gainsborough, one of the most popular British painters, has been celebrated as a landscapist, a portrait painter, and a man of feeling whose impetuous character is revealed in his art, life and letters. This book reveals that the style, themes and ideas of Gainsborough's paintings constitute purposeful expressions of an intellectual and visual culture whose importance in the development of eighteenth-century British art has gone unrecognised.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; 1 Mimesis and Empiricism; 2 The Book of Nature; 3 Emblem and Rococo; 4 The Art of Seeing; 5 Ut Musica Pictura; 6 The Landscape as Pastoral Object; 7 Surprising Likenesses; 8 A Skilful and Faithful Observer; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-84631-316-3
- OCLC:
- 647882329
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