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Pastures green & dark satanic mills: the British passion for landscape


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Abstract

"This new book offers a single, encompassing view of the development of landscape painting, photography, and land art in Britain from the eighteenth through to the late twentieth century. It reveals the strong continuity between British landscape art of today and that of over 250 years ago, with works by J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, John Piper, David Nash, and Richard Long, amongst many others.Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University. Oliver Fairclough is Keeper of Art, National Museum of Wales"--

Contents

Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills / Tim Barringer -- 'Hen Gymru fynyddig, paradwys y bardd' : Wales and the Evolution of Landscape Art in Britain / Oliver Fairclough.

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Publisher

  • Publication

    New York: American Federation of Arts in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2014

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  • Subject

  • Period

    1660-2000


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Classification

  • ISBN

    • 9781907804342
    • 1885444435
    • 9781885444431
    • 190780434X

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    • Exhibition itinerary: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, December 23, 2014- April 5, 2015; The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 7- August 2, 2015; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 27- December 13, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, January 13- April 24, 2016
    • This catalogue is published in conjunction with Pastures Green & Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape, an exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales.

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