Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 325 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-313) and index. |
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. |
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. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Local Note |
EBSCOhost Art and Architecture Complete |
Subject |
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788. (OCoLC)fst00035624
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Landscape painting, British -- 18th century.
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Portrait painting, British -- 18th century.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Landscape painting, British. (OCoLC)fst00991970
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Portrait painting, British. (OCoLC)fst01072191
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Chronological Term |
1700-1799
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Added Author |
Williamson, Paul, 1954-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Asfour, Amal. Gainsborough's vision. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999 085323874X 9780853238744 (OCoLC)43521977 |
ISBN |
9781846313165 (electronic book) |
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1846313163 (electronic book) |
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085323874X |
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9780853238744 |
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