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Painting Out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
by Solkin, David H.
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At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, a new generation of painters led by the precociously talented David Wilkie took London's art world by storm. Their novel approach to the depiction of everyday life marked the beginning a trajectory that links the art of the Age of Revolution with the postmodern culture of today.
What emerged from the imagery of Wilkie and other early 19th-century British genre painters--among them William Mulready, Edward Bird, and the controversial watercolorist Thomas Heaphy--was a sense that common people were increasingly bound up with the exceptional events of history, that traditional boundaries between country and city were melting away, and that a more regularized and dynamic present was everywhere encroaching upon the customary patterns of the past.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Solkin, David H.
- ISBN: 9780300140613
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 12.13 x 1.21
- Number Of Pages: 270
- Publication Year: 2008
Language:
English