Rowlandson: Watercolours And Drawings
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few artists captured the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian England with the raw vitality and comic genius of Thomas Rowlandson, and John Hayes' authoritative study stands as the definitive examination of this master's work in watercolour and drawing. The volume presents a comprehensive survey of Rowlandson's prodigious output, chronicling his extraordinary ability to render the full spectrum of late 18th and early 19th-century life — from the elegant salons of the aristocracy to the teeming, chaotic streets of London — with a wit as sharp as his pen. Hayes brings rigorous art-historical scholarship to bear on a body of work that is too often dismissed as mere caricature, arguing persuasively that Rowlandson's draughtsmanship represents a singular achievement in the British artistic tradition. His fluid, sinuous line work and masterful deployment of watercolour wash reveal an artist of tremendous technical sophistication, one whose acute social observation anticipates the satirical tradition that would run through British culture for centuries to come. For collectors, historians, and lovers of fine art alike, this Phaidon publication poses an irresistible question: can any single book of reproductions truly contain the anarchic, life-affirming energy of Rowlandson's genius?
Author: John Hayes
Format: Paperback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few artists captured the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian England with the raw vitality and comic genius of Thomas Rowlandson, and John Hayes' authoritative study stands as the definitive examination of this master's work in watercolour and drawing. The volume presents a comprehensive survey of Rowlandson's prodigious output, chronicling his extraordinary ability to render the full spectrum of late 18th and early 19th-century life — from the elegant salons of the aristocracy to the teeming, chaotic streets of London — with a wit as sharp as his pen. Hayes brings rigorous art-historical scholarship to bear on a body of work that is too often dismissed as mere caricature, arguing persuasively that Rowlandson's draughtsmanship represents a singular achievement in the British artistic tradition. His fluid, sinuous line work and masterful deployment of watercolour wash reveal an artist of tremendous technical sophistication, one whose acute social observation anticipates the satirical tradition that would run through British culture for centuries to come. For collectors, historians, and lovers of fine art alike, this Phaidon publication poses an irresistible question: can any single book of reproductions truly contain the anarchic, life-affirming energy of Rowlandson's genius?