Places of the Mind (British Museum)

Name: Places of the Mind (British Museum)
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9780500026403
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British watercolour landscapes 1850–1950

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Places of the Mind (British Museum) offers a fresh perspective on British landscape drawing from 1850 to 1950, focusing on the emotional and spiritual resonance of landscapes rather than just their physical depiction. Featuring works from Victorian artists like Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Edward Poynter, alongside twentieth-century artists such as John and Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, and Henry Moore, the book explores how artists conveyed a deep sense of place amid cultural and social change.
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This work will appeal to readers interested in British art, landscape painting, art history, and cultural studies, especially those fascinated by the Victorian and early Modern eras.

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A fresh perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern eras.

The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a landscape but also its emotional and spiritual impact—landscape as places of the mind, as the critic Geoffrey Grigson put it—are the focus of this fascinating new study of British watercolours produced between 1850 and 1950.

Drawing on the British Museum's impressive collection, Places of the Mind explores artists' spiritual quests to capture the essence of landscape and convey a sense of place. Artists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries drew on earlier traditions but developed and extended the genre through their imaginative, personal responses to the artistic, cultural, and social upheavals of the time.

The book includes works by Victorian artists Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Edward Poynter and by many well-known twentieth-century artists, such as John and Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, and Henry Moore, some of which have never previously been published.

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'One of the best surveys of British landscape painting you are likely to find' – The Artist. 'Fascinating and original' – Times Literary Supplement. 'Not merely a catalogue, but stands alone as a very interesting read' – The Lady.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500026403

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 159 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Kim Sloan
Text by Jessica Feather
Text by Anna Gruetzner Robins
Text by Sam Smiles
Text by Frances Carey

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 250.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 1260g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Kim Sloan is Curator of British Drawings and Watercolours at the British Museum. Jessica Feather is Allen Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.