Published to accompany an exhibition at Salisbury Museum and Art
Gallery, this volume explores the most significant works of art
engaged with prehistoric moments across Britain from the 18th
century to the 21st. While some of the works in the earlier period
may be familiar to readers - especially Turner and Constable's
famous watercolours of Stonehenge - the varied responses to British
Antiquity since 1900 are much less well known and have never been
grouped together. The author aims to show the significance of
antiquity for 20th-century artists, demonstrating how they
responded to the observable features of prehistoric Britain and
exploited their potential for imaginative re-interpretation. The
classic phase of modernist interest in these sites and monuments
was the 1930s, but a number of artists working after WWII developed
this legacy or were stimulated to explore that landscape in new
ways. Indeed, it continues to stimulate responses and the book
concludes with an examination of works made within the last few
years. An introductory essay looks at the changing artistic
approach to British prehistoric remains over the last 250 years,
emphasizing the artistic significance of this body of work and
examining the very different contexts that brought it into being.
The cultural intersections between the prehistoric landscape, its
representation by fine artists and the emergence of its most famous
sites as familiar locations in public consciousness will also be
examined. For example, engraved topographical illustrations from
the 18th and 19th centuries and Shell advertising posters from the
20th century will be considered. Artists represented include: JMW
Turner, John Constable, Thomas Hearne, William Blake, Samuel Prout,
William Geller, Richard Tongue, Thomas Guest, John William
Inchbold, George Shepherd, William Andrews Nesfield, Copley
Fielding, Yoshijiro (Mokuchu) Urushibara, Alan Sorrell, Edward
McKnight Kauffer, Frank Dobson, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, John
Piper, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ithell Colquhoun, Gertrude
Hermes, Norman Stevens, Norman Ackroyd, Bill Brandt, Derek Jarman,
Richard Long, Joe Tilson, David Inshaw and Jeremy Deller.
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