Constable (Colour Library) - Softcover

Sunderland, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714827541 ISBN 13: 9780714827544

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1998

Synopsis

No artist has rivalled John Constable (1776-1837) in his powers to express the beauties of the British countryside, especially the scenery of his native East Anglia. He sought above all to make 'pure and unaffected representations of the scenes', and to this end he made detailed studies of the minutest phenomena of nature. He wrote: 'My limited and abstracted art is to be found under every hedge, and in every lane...'. But this feeling for such qualities had to be reconciled with the traditional - and what were for him the essential - demands of of painting pictures for public exhibition. In this book many of his most famous pictures are reproduced, showing how Constable adjusted the fresh, spontaneous handling of paint in his sketches to more formal, academic requirements.

John Sunderland's enormously successful survey of the life and work of Constable was first published in 1971. Each full-page colour plate is accompanied by an explanatory text, and over fifty black-and-white illustrations offer comparisons with the paintings.

About this title

About the Author

?John Sunderland is the Witt and Conway Librarian at the Courtauld Institute, London.

From the Back Cover

In this book many of John Sunderland's most famous pictures are reproduced, showing how Constable adjusted the fresh, spontaneous handling of paint in his sketches to more formal, academic requirements.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714827541
• ISBN 13: 9780714827544
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 128