书名：Constable's Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons / 康斯太勃尔的一年：变化季节中的艺术家
定价：235.0
ISBN：9780500028896
作者：Susan Owens
版次：1
出版时间：2026-01

内容提要：

题 目：Constable's Year: An Artist in Changing Seasons / 康斯太勃尔的一年：变化季节中的艺术家

作 者：Susan Owens

出 版：Thames & Hudson，2026

装 帧：精装，224页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：15.3*23.4*1.2 cm

 

 

如吸一口纯氧般令人振奋——这是约翰·康斯特勃同时代的一些人对他画作的感受。但也有人对他那种毫不妥协的新鲜、写实的自然描绘方式感到困惑。苏珊·欧文斯跟随康斯特勃走过四季，追寻这位艺术家一年中的节奏与回响，为这位深受喜爱的人物提供了一个生动而不落俗套的视角。

无论是在五月身处伦敦，一边准备画展，一边心系萨福克郡的春天；还是在阴郁的九月描绘造船工人，等待婚姻的到来——康斯特勃的生活与创作，都异常深刻地受到了年度天气与农业周期的影响，同时也受到了艺术界各种相互冲突的需求的左右。他在萨福克郡长大，又接受过管理父亲田产的训练，农村生活的背景对他的绘画产生了持久的影响。他的创作方式，出自于一个对他所描绘的乡间小路、犁铧和水车磨坊了如指掌的人，也出自于一个将乡村理解为既是劳作之地、又是自然现象发生之所的人。

尽管今天他常被视为一位传统艺术家，但事实上，约翰·康斯特勃是一位革新者。他的速写本和画作摒弃了二手、潦草的伪自然，转而对土地、土地上的人民与劳作投以敏锐的审视；他发展出一种全新的绘画方式，来契合他以农夫之眼所见、并以靴底感受着的那片风景。

 

As exhilarating as a lungful of oxygen: that’s how some of his contemporaries felt about John Constable’s paintings. Others, though, were baffled by his uncompromisingly fresh and realistic treatment of the natural world. Susan Owens follows Constable through the seasons, tracing the rhythms and resonances of the artist’s year to offer a vivid, unconventional perspective on this beloved figure.

Whether in London in May, preparing pictures for exhibition and longing for the Suffolk spring, or painting boat-builders and waiting to be married in a particularly gloomy September, Constable’s life and work were unusually shaped by the yearly cycles of weather and agriculture, as well as by the often competing demands of the art world. Raised in Suffolk and trained to manage his father's land, his rural background had an enduring impact on his painting. His was the approach of one who knew the laneways, ploughs and millponds he painted intimately, and who understood the countryside as a place of both labour and natural phenomena.

Though today he is often considered a traditional artist, in truth John Constable was a radical. His sketchbooks and paintings reject second-hand, slip-shod versions of nature, instead subjecting the land, its people and industry to intense scrutiny; developing a new kind of painting to fit the landscape he saw with his farmer’s eye and felt beneath the soles of his boots.