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. A single, encompassing view of the rise of landscape art in Britain from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. . Features masterpieces by renowned artists: JMW Turner, Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones, Frank Brangwyn, August John, Cedric Morris, Stanley Spencer, Claude Monet, Laura Knight, Alfred Sisley, Edward Lear, Graham Sutherland and John Piper. 'Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills' recounts the story of British landscape painting from the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century to the present day. Examining 88 paintings from the National Museum of Wales, this volume traces the history of the landscape through romanticism, impressionism and modernism right up to the post-industrial imagery of the 21st century. The book presents two major essays: one by Tim Barringer on the tradition of British landscape painting and its position within an increasingly industrialised society, the other by Oliver Fairclough on the significance of the Welsh landscape within the British tradition. Featuring masterpieces by renowned artists – JMW Turner, Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones, Frank Brangwyn, August John, Cedric Morris, Stanley Spencer, Claude Monet, Laura Knight, Alfred Sisley, Edward Lear, Graham Sutherland and John Piper – this volume offers new insights into the cultural history of Britain. Loosely chronological, and divided into six thematic sections, this new volume demonstrates the strong continuity between the British art of today and that of over 250 years ago: contemporary works, such as conceptual artist Richard Long's photo pieces based on hiking in the Welsh mountains echo the poetics of place as deeply as Richard Wilson's landscapes of the 1740s. AUTHOR: Oliver Fairclough is Keeper of Art, National Museum of Wales. Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University. 115 colour

Author Biography

Oliver Fairclough is Keeper of Art, National Museum of Wales. Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University.

Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgments Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills by Tim Barringer Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd": Wales and the Evolution of Landscape Art in Britain by Oliver Fairclough Catalogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index Photo Credits

Review

"Successfully combines work by the greatest masters in the genre with the production of little-known and often unjustly forgotten Welsh painters"--Jacques Carré, Cercles "A valuable addition to studies of ... landscape art"--Patricia Andrew, Cassone

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"Successfully combines work by the greatest masters in the genre with the production of little-known and often unjustly forgotten Welsh painters"--Jacques Carr

Competing Titles

Glorious Nature: British Landscape Painting 1750-1850 Katharine Baetjer 9781555950934 OP Hudson Hills Press 1996 Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting Martin Postle 9780300203851 80.00 Yale University Press March 2014

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Accompanying exhibition tour offers a rare opportunity to study the whole subject of landscape painting in Britain in one show, and will create wide-scale media and regional interest in the show and the volume across the US This volume is the "go-to" publication on British landscape art. Offers new insights into the cultural history of Britain and the history of British art. Showcases masterpieces by the major names in British art, art (as well as works by major overseas artists who worked, or settled in Britain), such as JMW Turner, Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones, Frank Brangwyn, August John, Cedric Morris, Stanley Spencer, Claude Monet, Laura Knight, Alfred Sisley, Edward Lear, Graham Sutherland and John Piper, Taps into a major area of wider academic and social study (environmental concerns, urbanization vs rural landscape)

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