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The Meaning of Pictures - Personal, Social and Political Identity (Hardcover)
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The Meaning of Pictures - Personal, Social and Political Identity (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R363
Discovery Miles 3 630
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This book is about Welsh pictures painted between the eighteenth
and the twentieth centuries, and why they matter today. It mainly
concerns how pictures are understood by the people who use them -
patrons, museum curators, and the general public - rather than by
the painters who paint them. It consists of a series of chapters on
different aspects of painting, which are unified by a common theme.
Individual chapters discuss an eighteenth-century painting, a
nineteenth-century genre, a twentieth-century painter, how pictures
are valued by museums and the art market, and how, since the 1980s,
the Welsh art establishment has fought a reactionary battle against
the New Art History movement. The chapters are unified by their
concern with the question of how a tradition of art is created, and
what effect a tradition has on how a nation sees itself - and is
seen by others. The pictures and painters are discussed in the
context of contemporary literature, and the social and political
circumstances of their period. Comparisons are made with the
experience of other cultures, notably the United States and
Ireland.
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