The power of the sea making waves in British art 1790 - 2014 ; [catalog accompanies an exhibition organized and held by the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, April 5 - July 6, 2014]
From the sublime spectacle of crashing waves to the vast and open expanse of the oceans, the sea has long fascinated artists in Britain. 'The Power of the Sea' offers a multi-disciplinary approach to this fascinating subject, showcasing work by internationally-renowned contemporary artists...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Bristol
Sansom
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | From the sublime spectacle of crashing waves to the vast and open expanse of the oceans, the sea has long fascinated artists in Britain. 'The Power of the Sea' offers a multi-disciplinary approach to this fascinating subject, showcasing work by internationally-renowned contemporary artists alongside key historical works from national and regional art collections. Many of the earliest artists in the exhibition - George Morland, Francis Danby, John Brett and Walter Langley - emphasized the Romanticism of the sea through images depicting the human costs of shipwrecks and their aftermath. Meanwhile JMW Turner and John Constable were captivated by its elemental nature - its fury and fluidity, breeze and light. By the late nineteenth century, the sea seemed more benign, a source of leisure and health: Henry Moore, David James, and Sydney Mortimer Laurence experimented with different ways to capture the movement of the waves. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references Foreword / Alison Bevan -- Introduction / Janette Kerr PRWA and Christiana Payne -- Acknowledgements -- From sublimity to modernism : British artists and the sea 1790-1950 / Christiana Payne -- Sea and the contemporary gaze / Janette Kerr PRWA -- 'The horizon holding the edge of the known world' : placing the sea / Owain Jones -- The power of the ooze / Simon Read -- Fascinating and monstrous ocean waves / Kristian Dysthe, Harald Krogstad and Anne Karin Magnusson -- Nineteenth and twentieth-century artists / Christiana Payne -- Contemporary artists : words and images -- About the authors |
| Beschreibung: | 159 S. zahlr. Ill., Kt. 21 x 27 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781908326577 978-1-908326-57-7 1908326573 1-908326-57-3 |