From the landscapes of Wilson and Constable to the visionary imagery of Blake and Bacon, this book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, is a beautifully illustrated survey of British art from I75O to 1950. Spanning two hundred years, British Vision presents some of the most celebrated works in British art history, selected fi'om public and private collections in Europe and the USA by Robert Hoozee, Director of the Ghent Museum, drawing on the expertise of the scholars Andrew Dempsey,John Gage, Mark Haworth-Booth and Timothy Hyman. Among the great artists whose work appears on the book's pages are William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, John Constable,Joseph Mallord William Turner, Richard Dadd, Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Edward Burne-Jones, Stanley Spencer, Graham S utherland, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
From the landscapes of Wilson and Constable to the visionary imagery of Blake and Bacon, this book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, is a beautifully illustrated survey of British art from I75O to 1950. Spanning two hundred years, British Vision presents some of the most celebrated works in British art history, selected fi'om public and private collections in Europe and the USA by Robert Hoozee, Director of the Ghent Museum, drawing on the expertise of the scholars Andrew Dempsey,John Gage, Mark Haworth-Booth and Timothy Hyman. Among the great artists whose work appears on the book's pages are William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, John Constable,Joseph Mallord William Turner, Richard Dadd, Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Edward Burne-Jones, Stanley Spencer, Graham S utherland, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
Essays by a group of distinguished art historians focus on two defining characteristics o f British art, observation and imagination, seen within the context of Society (Changing Society, British Humour, Modern Life),Landscape (Points of View, Everyday Landscape, Atmosphere and Detail) and the Visionary. This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a sumptuous record of the most comprehensive exhibition of British art to be displayed in recent years, and represents a unique opportunity to discover the creative forces that shaped British art over two ccnturies.
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introductory Essays
Introduction, Robert Hoozee
Betwccn the Mcticulous and the Mad, Timothy Hyman
The Vision of Landscape, John Gagc
Observation of Society, Robert Hoozcc
BRITISH HUMOUR
James Gillray
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MODERN LIFE
Walter Siekert
Bill Brandt
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Observation of Landscapc, Robert Hoozec
POINTS OF VIEW
Thomas Jones
Thomas Girtin
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EVERYDAY I
John Constablc
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ATMOSPHERE AND DETAIL
Ford Madox Brown
Roger Fcnton, Double Bridge on the Machno, Mark Haworth-Booth
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MODERN LANDSCAPE
Paul Nash, Landseape of the Vernal[ Equinox (III), David Fraser Jenkins
Victor Pasmore
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The Visionary, Robert Hoozee
William Blake, The Sea of Time and Space, David Bindman
John Martin, The Deluge, Angus Trumble
J.M.W. Turncr, Great House: the Drawing Room, East Cowes Castle, Ian Warrell
William Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat, Christopher Newall
Jacob Epstein, Consummatum Est, Robert Upstone
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Short Titles
Bibliography
Lcndcrs to the Exhibition
Authors' Information
Credits
Index