The Shining Sands: Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930 - Softcover

Tom Cross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0718894510 ISBN 13: 9780718894511

Publisher: Lutterworth Press, 2016

Synopsis

This is the remarkable story of the colony of artists who were inspired by the people, landscape and light of West Cornwall. Now internationally celebrated, they are forever to be associated with the small fishing ports of Newlyn and St Ives. Arriving from the artists colonies of France, the Barbizon and Pont-Aven, and the painting schools of London and Paris, they set up their studios in the cottages and net lofts overlooking the sea. Here they painted; their subjects centred on the working life and conditions of the people they lived amongst, and the stark beauty of the rugged Cornish landscape. Challenging the accepted styles of the Victorian masters, their bold work, full of light and colour, often drew upon the working life of the fishermen and their families, recording the tragedies and simple pleasures of their lives. In The Shining Sands, Tom Cross records the life and work of these artists, from the earliest arrivals in the 1870s through to the decade preceding the Second World War. In this period the artists colony grew into one of the most significant art movements of recent times, the influences of which directly inspired the post-war modern movements, and which reverberate even today. The Shining Sands includes almost 100 colour pictures, and 200 images in all, produced by such artists as Walter Langley, Frank Bramley, Stanhope Forbes, Norman Garstin, Elizabeth Forbes, Lamorna Birch, Laura Knight, Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood. The author describes the events and circumstances behind the making of many of the paintings, adding a further dimension to our appreciation of these fine works.

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About the Author:

Tom Cross (1931-2009) was an artist, lecturer and author who made his mark upon the world of art in Cornwall, both with his own work and as Principal of Falmouth School of Art. Along with The Shining Sands, his major works Painting the Warmth of the Sun (1984) and Catching the Wave (2002) are standard works on the history of the Newlyn and St Ives Schools and of contemporary artists working in Cornwall today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0718894510
• ISBN 13: 9780718894511
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232