Prospects, Thresholds and Interiors
Watercolours from the National Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 26 January 1994
- ISBN 9780521444880
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages270 pages
- Size 285x223x27 mm
- Weight 1460 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 100 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 0
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Short description:
A selection of some of the finest British watercolours from the National Collection.
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This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of watercolours from The National Collection of Watercolours at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In a study of paintings spanning some two hundred years, Lewis Johnson explores the familiar and the unfamiliar in one of the most apparently tradition-governed practices of painting. Taking as his starting point the formation of the Collection in the mid-nineteenth century, he examines contemporary claims for watercolour as a modern art, and shows how certain notions of the modern were interlinked with nationalist and imperialist culture in Britain. His analysis of traditional criticism's dependence on these ideas, and of its limitations in the face of the complexity of historical, social, political and philosophical questions raised by the paintings, makes this study a bold and timely contribution to the reappraisal of the history and theory of art in Britain.
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Introduction; 1. Events on the horizon; 2. Surveying the city; 3. Domains of drama; 4. Prospects of the past; 5. Thresholds of the domestic; 6. Thresholds of the foreign; 7. Picturesque prospects; 8. Varieties of Victorian prospects; 9. Various thresholds: Flower paintings and still life subjects; 10. Prospects and interiors post 1900.
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