Late Constable
"Forget the rural idylls. This sublime show recasts John Constable as the godfather of the avant garde, producing explosive, nightmarish paintings of a vanishing world." - Jonathan Jones, Guardian
One of Britain's greatest landscape painters, John Constable (1776-1837) was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of 24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of doors. Les mer
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With texts by leading authorities on the artist, this handsome book looks at the freedom of Constable's late works and records his enormous contribution to the English landscape tradition.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781912520725
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 19 x 26 cm
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"Forget the rural idylls. This sublime show recasts John Constable as the godfather of the avant garde, producing explosive, nightmarish paintings of a vanishing world." - Jonathan Jones, Guardian