书名：Five Centuries of British Painting (World of Art) From Holbein to Hodgkin
定价：99.0
ISBN：9780500203491
作者：Andrwe Wilton
版次：1
出版时间：2002-01

内容提要：

ISBN：9780500203491

书名：Five Centuries of British Painting (World of Art) From Holbein to Hodgkin

作者：Andrwe Wilton

出版：Thames and Hudson，2002

装帧：平装，256页，183幅插图

语种：英文

开本：15×21cm

Britain has played a key part in the history of the last five centuries, and its art reflects this in absorbing and complex ways. The distinguished art historian Andrew Wilton traces the story of British painting from its hesitant beginnings under the influence of Holbein through its maturity in the time of Hogarth and Reynolds, when it reflected a prosperous society with growing imperial influence.

The pioneering role of Constable and Turner in the revolutions of the Romantic period is fully explored, and the enigmatic position of artists in Victorian England, when a stiff moral code came into conflict with the uncertainties of the age of Darwin. Consistent undercurrents revealed include Britain’s preference for the real world (landscape, portraiture) as against ‘high’ art and abstraction.

Andrew Wilton offers new insights into the great personalities of British painting, and assesses afresh the latest flowering, in which many threads of modern art come together in sometimes startling guises.