Constable / edited and compiled by John Sunderland.
Contributor(s): Sunderland, John [editor]
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BookSeries: Phaidon colour library: Publisher: London : Phaidon Press, 1981Copyright date: ©1981Description: 126 pages : illustrations, plates ; 30 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714827541 (paperback); 9780714827544 (paperback).Subject(s): Constable, John, 1776-1837 | Art, BritishDDC classification: 759.2 CON
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| 759.2 CON Constable, the painter and his landscape / | 759.2 CON Constable / | 759.2 CON Flatford : Constable country / | 759.2 CON Constable / | 759.2 CON Constable / | 759.2 COO The works / | 759.2 COO Nigel Cooke / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
No artist has rivalled John Constable (1776-1837) in his powers to express the beauties of the British countryside, especially the scenery of his native East Anglia. He sought above all to make 'pure and unaffected representations of the scenes', and to this end he made detailed studies of the minutest phenomena of nature. He wrote: 'My limited and abstracted art is to be found under every hedge, and in every lane...'. But this feeling for such qualities had to be reconciled with the traditional - and what were for him the essential - demands of of painting pictures for public exhibition. In this book many of his most famous pictures are reproduced, showing how Constable adjusted the fresh, spontaneous handling of paint in his sketches to more formal, academic requirements.
John Sunderland's enormously successful survey of the life and work of Constable was first published in 1971. Each full-page colour plate is accompanied by an explanatory text, and over fifty black-and-white illustrations offer comparisons with the paintings.
Bibliography: (page 26)
Donated by D. Wilson.