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Item Number: 130425
Title: Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills : The British Passion for Landscape
Author: Barringer, Tim ; Oliver Fairclough
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781907804342
Description: London: Giles, in association with the American Federation of Arts, 2015. 26cm., hardcover, 232pp., 115 color plates. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills recounts the story of British landscape painting from the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century to the present day. Examining 88 paintings from the National Museum of Wales, this volume traces the history of landscape art through romanticism, impressionism and modernism right up to the postindustrial imagery of the 21st century. The book presents two major essays: one by Tim Barringer on the tradition of British landscape painting and its position within an increasingly industrialized society, the other by Oliver Fairclough on the significance of the Welsh landscape within the British tradition. Loosely chronological and divided into 6 thematic sections, this new volume demonstrates the strong continuity between the British art of today and that of over 250 years ago: contemporary works, such as conceptual artist Richard Long’s photo pieces based on hiking in the Welsh mountains echo the poetics of place as deeply as Richard Wilson’s landscapes of the 1740s.
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