Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life - CLARK; WAGNER
KORTE INHOUD
This book will accompany a long overdue retrospective of the much-loved British painter L.S. Lowry (1887-1976), the first show held by a public institution in London since the artist's death. Bringing together around eighty works, the aim is to reassess Lowry's contribution as part of a wider art history and to argue for his achievement as Britain's pre-eminent painter of the industrial city.
Although Lowry's most frequent subjects were drawn from a pattern of streets he walked daily, he is not straightforwardly a 'realist' artist nor really an 'impressionist' artist, though there are few twentieth-century British artists who engaged more fruitfully with the French tradition. For Lowry modern painting needed a mode of observation capable of representing the remaining rituals of public life: football matches and protest marches, evictions and fist-fights, workers going to and from the mill. Without his pictures, Britain would arguably lack an account in paint of the experiences of the twentieth-century working ...
Although Lowry's most frequent subjects were drawn from a pattern of streets he walked daily, he is not straightforwardly a 'realist' artist nor really an 'impressionist' artist, though there are few twentieth-century British artists who engaged more fruitfully with the French tradition. For Lowry modern painting needed a mode of observation capable of representing the remaining rituals of public life: football matches and protest marches, evictions and fist-fights, workers going to and from the mill. Without his pictures, Britain would arguably lack an account in paint of the experiences of the twentieth-century working ...
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2013Uitgever: Tate Publishing192 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 218x180ISBN-10: 1849760918ISBN-13: 9781849760911Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Prima staat. [Auteur: Clark, T. J.] [Pagina's: 224] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Tate Publishing] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life]
Prima staat. [Auteur: Clark, T. J.] [Pagina's: 224] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Tate Publishing] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life]
