Cultures Crossed

Emily M Weeks

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• The first critical monograph devoted John Frederick Lewis, this innovative book proposes a fresh and compelling new interpretation of the acclaimed 19... Lees meer

Wyndham Lewis

Paul Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Equally talented as a writer and painter, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative and controversial artistic figures of twentieth-cen... Lees meer

Walter Sickert: Prints

Ruth Bromberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was possibly the most important and influential early modern British artist. He belonged to the generation that absorbed th... Lees meer

Architectural Colour in British Interiors, 1615-1840

Ian C Bristow

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Paint is ephemeral: it fades and discolors and is obliterated by succeeding phases of redecoration. Until recently, this has presented a significant o... Lees meer

Blake Records

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Poet, painter, engraver, and mystic, William Blake (1757-1827) is unequalled for the imaginary force and visionary power of his works. This fascinatin... Lees meer

The Age of Caricature

Diana Donald

• Paperback | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• The late eighteenth century in England was the first great age of cartooning, and English caricature prints of the period have long been enjoyed for t... Lees meer

Owning the Past

Ruth Guilding

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, Owning the Past chronicles a story o... Lees meer

Town Houses of Medieval Britain

Anthony Quiney

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• This uniquely wide-ranging book explores British medieval houses, from humble to grand, in greater detail than ever before. Anthony Quiney synthesizes... Lees meer

Ireland and the Picturesque

Finola O'Kane

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliché, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted, and manipulated during the lo... Lees meer

The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment

Celina Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms--not simply the representation of work in the fine art of... Lees meer

George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America

Michael Hall

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• British architect George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) fundamentally shaped the architecture, art, and design of the Anglican Church throughout England... Lees meer

Bacon and Sutherland

Martin Hammer

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Both Francis Bacon (1909-1992) and Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) were highly influential modern British artists, yet in temperament they could not hav... Lees meer

English Vernacular Furniture, 1750-1900

Christopher Gilbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• The vernacular furniture used by ordinary people has only recently been considered a subject worthy of study. In this magisterial book--the first comp... Lees meer

Gainsborough in Bath

Susan Sloman

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• When Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) arrived in the spa town of Bath, England, at the age of thirty-one, he was an artist of modest reputation. When h... Lees meer

A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840

Howard Colvin

• Paperback | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects... Lees meer

John Singer Sargent

Richard Ormond, Elaine Kilmurray, Warren Adelson

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• This gorgeous book is the second volume of the definitive catalogue raisonné of the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). It c... Lees meer

Reynolds

Mark Hallett

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• A deeply researched and elegantly written study on Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)--Georgian England's most celebrated portraitist and the first presi... Lees meer