David Wilkie

The People's Painter

Nicholas Tromans (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2007
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-2520-8 (ISBN)

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This is the first modern book about the artist David Wilkie (1785-1841), the first British painter to become an international celebrity. Based on extensive original research, the book explores the ways in which Wilkie’s images, so beloved by his contemporaries, engaged with a range of cultural predicaments close to their hearts. In a series of thematic chapters, whose concerns range far beyond the details of Wilkie’s own career, Tromans shows how, through Wilkie’s thrillingly original work, British society was able to reimagine its own everyday life, its history, and its multinational (Anglo-Scottish) nature. Other themes covered include Wilkie’s roles in defining the border between painting and anatomy in the representation of the human body, and in transforming the pleasures of connoisseurship from an elite to a popular audience.For the first time, all of Wilkie’s major subject pictures are brought together, reproduced and discussed. With a great range of new archival material and original interpretive arguments, this book replaces Wilkie at the centre of the visual culture of British Romanticism.

Nicholas Tromans is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University.

Introduction; Chronology; 1. Everyday Stories; 2. The Anatomy of Expression; 3. 'the shackles of connoisseurship'; 4. Everyday Heroes: Wilkie's Version of History; 5. Wilkie and Scotland; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.10.2007
Zusatzinfo	50 black and white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-7486-2520-8 / 0748625208
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-2520-8 / 9780748625208
Zustand	Neuware