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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes
This new book offers a single, encompassing view of the
development of landscape painting, photography, and land art in
Britain from the eighteenth through to the late twentieth century.
It reveals the strong continuity between British landscape art of
today and that of over 250 years ago, with works by J.M.W. Turner,
John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, John Piper, David Nash, and
Richard Long, amongst many others.
Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art,
Yale University.
Oliver Fairclough is Keeper of Art, National Museum of
Wales.
For hundreds of years the Bactrian camel ploughed a lonely furrow
across the vast wilderness of Asia. This bizarre-looking,
temperamental yet hardy creature here came into its own as the core
goods vehicle, resolutely and reliably transporting to China - over
huge and unforgiving distances - fine things from the West while
taking treasures out of the Middle Kingdom in return. Where the
chariot, wagon and other wheeled conveyances proved useless amidst
the shifting desert dunes, the surefooted progress of the camel -
archetypal 'ship of the Silk Road' - now reigned supreme. The
Bactrian camel was a subject that appealed particularly to Chinese
artists because of its association with the exotic trade to
mysterious Western lands. In his lavishly illustrated volume, Angus
Forsyth explores diverse jade pieces depicting this iconic beast of
burden. Almost one hundred separate objects are included, many of
which have not been seen in print before. At the same time the
author offers the full historical background to his subject. The
book will have a strong appeal to collectors and art historians
alike.
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Coloring Panda
- A Coloring Book for Girls, Stress Relief Fun With Relaxing Designs of Magical Animals, Fantasy, Mandalas, Flowers, Patterns, Swirls for Adults, Kids 4-8, 9-12, Girls
(Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Sanket Mistry
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R416
Discovery Miles 4 160
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the
eighteenth century, just as Britain fell in love with nature. This
was one of the wildlife books that marked the moment, the first
'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of
astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for
in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book Bewick drew the
life of the country people of the North East - a world already
vanishing under the threat of enclosures. In Nature's Engraver: The
life of Thomas Bewick, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's
son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced
book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent
change, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the
wild - a journey to the beginning of our lasting obsession with the
natural world. Nature's Engraver won the National Arts Writers
Award in 2007. Jenny Uglow is the author of, among others, A
Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, which was shortlisted
for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize, Lunar Men and In These Times.
'The most perfect historian imaginable' Peter Ackroyd
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