Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia

The Manton Collection of British Art

Edited by Jay A. Clarke

Edited by Jay A. Clarke

Publisher: Yale University Press

Series: Clark Art Institute S.

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 31 July 2012

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ISBN: 0300179669 ISBN 13: 9780300179668

Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia

Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A G Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled a collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. In this book, a series of essays by prominent scholars consider the major works and themes in the collection, relating them to larger issues within the field of British studies. Top page

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Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007, their collection features more than three hundred oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, and prints, including works by John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, and William Blake. In a series of wide-ranging essays, prominent scholars consider the major works and themes in the collection, relating them to larger issues within the field of British studies. Individual essays are devoted to Constable's oil sketches, cloud studies, and his magisterial painting The Wheatfield; the growth of the watercolour tradition; print portfolios and narrative series; Thomas Rowlandson's satiric drawings; and Gainsborough's use of experimental materials as revealed through recent scientific analysis. The volume concludes with an illustrated checklist of the works in the collection. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Yale University Press

City: New Haven

Pages: 272

More info: height 305 mm width 241 mm weight 2046 gr thickness 37 mm

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Age recommended: General/trade

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 709.41 Library of Congress Subject: Art, British - 20th century

Departments: History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900;

Record updated at: 17 May, 2013 time: 19:02

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