Alex Kidson (166 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The year 2002 marks the bicentenary of the death of George Romney, one of the key figures in British art in the late 18th century. A chief rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough - and for much of his career more fashionable than both - he was known both as a portraitist and as a draftsman. His countless studies for literary and mythological pictures, made in private moments but which he never had time to paint, are executed in a bold, spontaneous style that mark him as one of the first Romantics. One hundred years ago Romney's reputation was at its peak. Collectors fought to obtain his portraits of fresh-faced English women, above all his portraits of Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, who in her youth was Romney's favourite model and with whom he was widely supposed to have had an affair. As the more snobbish and sexist aspects of Edwardian taste became outdated, Romney's art fell spectacularly from favour. His career remains little understood and many of his best-known works are among his least distinguished. He both drew and painted with freedom and with a dramatic expressiveness unmatched in British portraiture of his day. Even later in life, as overwork and disenchantment sapped his enthusiasm, Romney was able to rekindle his energies for special sitters and when working on his occasionally sublime literary and historical paintings. This book provides a fully rounded overview of his career. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Softcover. Condition: Fine+. No Dust Jacket. Cover has a tiny 'nick' at top left corner of front. Iny 'bend' at back bottom cover; Color Prints; 10.90 X 9.40 X 0.90 inches; 256 pages.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Large format paperback in the original pictorial wrappers. 135 pages. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Contains essays by several experts on both Lady Hamilton and the Kislak Collection. First edition. The catalog of the exhibition presented in New York City by the Grolier Club from 16 Feb. to 30 April 2011. Contains "The Road to London." No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked copy with undamaged spine and sharp corners, appears unread and like new. Fine.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good condition soft cover, light wear to the cover and spine, ex academic library copy with all the usual marks and labels, otherwise in a good condition inside and out.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Binding tight and square, Dust jacket covered in protective mylar sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. London, 2006; illustrated paper covers; mild shelf wear; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 15 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. xi, 243 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Accompanies an exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, February 8 to April 21, 2002, and other venues. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A large-format coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "This handsome catalogue, which accompanies a major international exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of George Romney's death, offers the first in-depth modern overview of a key figure in eighteenth-century British art. Romney was the main rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough--and for much of his career more fashionable than either. A century ago, collectors fought to buy the portraits he created with a distinctive mix of elegance, mannerism, and informality especially popular were those of Emma Hart (later the notorious Lady Hamilton), who became his favorite model and muse. Romney's chief ambition, however, was to succeed as a history painter, and he made countless drawings for literary and mythological pictures that he never had time to paint. These drawings, executed with a spontaneity and dramatic expressiveness that have appealed to many modern artists, mark Romney as one of the first Romantics. Reproducing over two hundred works, this is the most generously illustrated volume on Romney to date. In a major departure from earlier treatments, the book devotes equal attention to his drawings and his paintings, persuasively demonstrating how interdependent the two media were in his art. Alex Kidson has written an invitingly personal, intriguingly speculative text, in which Romney emerges as one of the most brilliant and inventive artists of his time. From now on, any serious consideration of his work must begin with this book." - Publisher. Size: 4to.…

Mar 01, 2011. Condition: New. New oblong softcover with no marks or wear.

paperback. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Like New. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

paperback. Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

paperback. Condition: Used-Very Good. Pbk. 4to. Profuselly illus. Some shelf-wear. Else bright clean copy.

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Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG. Blue cloth over boards, gilt letters on spine; blue and color illus. dj.; maps on flyleaves, 224 pp.; Profusely illustrated. Issued in conjunction with 2007-2008 exhibition of work by English landscape painter Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). Discusses his impact on the artistic climate, artists, and cultural institutions of LIverpool, through five thematic and illustrated essays. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 82 specific pieces. Includes bibliography.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Laminated card covers, illustrations throughout, lightly edgeworn, some tipex on rear cover, bookseller's label on half-title, no annotations, binding tight. ; 9.12 x 8.12 x .4; 80 pages.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 0906367964. ********HARDCOVER COPY*****with dustjacket, 1999 clean bright copy.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. After a period of darkness when Liverpool the second city of the British Empire lacked the kind of annual public art exhibition enjoyed by many of Britains other provincial centres, light dawned in 1871 when a group of town councillors gambled with public funds to create the first Liverpool Autumn Exhibition. Hailed a success, the exhibition would go on to become an annual event and a cultural institution, the Royal Academy of the North of England. From 1877 the history of the Autumn Exhibition was intertwined with that of Liverpools Walker Art Gallery, but it was during its first six years of growth that its immense popularity was sealed. This new study anatomises those six little-known Victorian art exhibitions, and assembles images of the key, and representative, works that were seen and sold in them. Study of Victorian art exhibitions in Liverpool Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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