| Description |
256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Colour and pigments -- Paper -- Brushes -- The camera obscura -- Watercolour in the caves -- Painting for eternity -- Classical painting -- Watercolour painting in the Far East -- Islamic and Indian miniatures -- To the glory of God -- Medieval frescoes -- 'Painters in little' -- Dürer: Father of European watercolour -- The rise of watercolour in England -- The 18th-century romantics -- Paul Sandby: 'Real views from nature' -- The topographers -- Thomas Girtin: forging a tradition -- Turner -- Constable -- The Norwich school -- John Sell Cotman -- David Cox and Peter de Wint -- The visionaries -- Samuel Palmer's visions of the soul -- Satire and social comment -- The pre-Raphaelite brotherhood -- Explorers' art -- Following the sun -- Marine watercolours -- Watercolour in America -- War in watercolour -- Flowers -- Watercolour in the theatre -- Delacroix and French Romanticism -- Impressionist watercolours -- The ferment of the new -- British watercolours in the 20th century -- Watercolour now. |
| Subject |
Watercolorists -- Biography.
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Watercolor painting -- History.
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| ISBN |
0671807978 |
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9780671807979 |
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