Scottish art / Murdo Macdonald.
By: Macdonald, Murdo.
Material type: BookSeries: World of art.Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 2000Description: 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0500203334.Subject(s): Art, ScottishDDC classification: 709.411Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.411 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00088673 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
What makes Scottish art Scottish? What are the threads that bind it into a single tradition? Many factors have formed the character of Scottish art, but it is also rich in distinctive personalities and individual genius.
Bibliography: p. 216-218. - Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. 7)
- Chapter 1 Prehistory and Early History (p. 8)
- The First Art
- The Early Celts
- The Influence of Rome
- Chapter 2 The Development of Christian Art (p. 18)
- Picts and Gaels
- Northumbrians
- Books and Crosses
- The Lordship of the Isles and the West Highland School of Sculpture
- Chapter 3 Loss and Reconstruction (p. 36)
- Reformation and Rough Wooing
- George Jamesone and the Rebirth of Scottish Painting
- A Grammar of Painting in Place
- Chapter 4 Classicism and Celticism (p. 51)
- A Landscape made Classical
- Artists and Intelligentsin
- Hamilton's Iliad
- The Origin of Painting
- Runciman's Ossian
- Chapter 5 Art and Philosophy (p. 72)
- Henry Raeburn and Alexander Nasmyth
- Interpreting the Enlightenment: David Wilkie
- Towards a National School of Sculpture
- Chapter 6 Nineteenth-Century Narratives (p. 93)
- Hispanicism, Orientalism and Scottish History
- Painting, Religion, Photography
- Wilderness as Backdrop
- Looking Inward: David Scott and William Bell Scott
- Artists and Antiquarians
- Robert Scott Lauderand his Students
- Heroes and Monuments
- Chapter 7 Modernity and Revivals (p. 130)
- The Glasgow School of Painting
- Mackintosh's Glasgow
- Photography and Etching
- Arts, Crafts and Celtic Revival in Edinburgh
- Chapter 8 Twentieth-Century Pluralism (p. 159)
- The Colourists
- The Edinburgh Group
- The Scottish National War Memorial
- James Cowie and his Influence
- Experimental Landscape
- Glasgow in the 1930s and 1940s
- Post-War Diversity
- Epilogue: Deconstructing Stereotypes and Reappropriating Symbols
- Select Bibliography (p. 216)
- List of Illustrations (p. 219)
- Index (p. 222)