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Author Asfour, Amal.

Title Gainsborough's vision / Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999.

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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.
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Local Note EBSCOhost Art and Architecture Complete
Subject Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788. (OCoLC)fst00035624
Landscape painting, British -- 18th century.
Portrait painting, British -- 18th century.
ART -- History -- General.
Landscape painting, British. (OCoLC)fst00991970
Portrait painting, British. (OCoLC)fst01072191
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Added Author Williamson, Paul, 1954-
Other Form: Print version: Asfour, Amal. Gainsborough's vision. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999 085323874X 9780853238744 (OCoLC)43521977
ISBN 9781846313165 (electronic book)
1846313163 (electronic book)
085323874X
9780853238744
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