The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist

Contentions and Alliances in the Artistic Domain, 1760–1824

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Art Technique, Water Colour, Home & Garden, Crafts & Hobbies
Cover of the book The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist by Greg Smith, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Greg Smith ISBN: 9781351730105
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: January 12, 2018
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Greg Smith
ISBN: 9781351730105
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: January 12, 2018
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

This title was first published in 2002: Draw ing on extensive primary research, Greg Smith describes the shifting cultural identities of the English watercolour, and the English watercolourist, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. His convincing narrative of the conflicts and alliances that marked the history of the medium and its practitioners during this period includes careful detail about the broader artistic context within which watercolours were produced, acquired and discussed. Smith calls into question many of the received assumptions about the history of watercolour painting. His account exposes the unsatisfactory nature of the traditional narrative of watercolour painting’s development into a ’high’ art form, which has tended to offer a celebratory focus on the innovations and genius of individual practitioners such as Turner and Girtin, rather than detailing the anxieties and aspirations that characterized the ambivalent status of the watercolourist. The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist is published with the assistance of the Paul Mellon Foundation.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This title was first published in 2002: Draw ing on extensive primary research, Greg Smith describes the shifting cultural identities of the English watercolour, and the English watercolourist, at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. His convincing narrative of the conflicts and alliances that marked the history of the medium and its practitioners during this period includes careful detail about the broader artistic context within which watercolours were produced, acquired and discussed. Smith calls into question many of the received assumptions about the history of watercolour painting. His account exposes the unsatisfactory nature of the traditional narrative of watercolour painting’s development into a ’high’ art form, which has tended to offer a celebratory focus on the innovations and genius of individual practitioners such as Turner and Girtin, rather than detailing the anxieties and aspirations that characterized the ambivalent status of the watercolourist. The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist is published with the assistance of the Paul Mellon Foundation.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Implicit and Explicit Mental Processes by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Philosophical Foundations for the Curriculum by Greg Smith
Cover of the book The Royal Navy and the Arctic Convoys by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Generative and Non-Linear Phonology by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Sex, Career and Family by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Delusion and Self-Deception by Greg Smith
Cover of the book The Fifth Principle by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Radical Sensibility by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Looking for Ground by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Disputed Subjects (RLE Feminist Theory) by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Wittgenstein by Greg Smith
Cover of the book Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing by Greg Smith
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy