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Title The Essence of Art : Victorian Advice on the Practice of Painting / edited by Craig Harrison
Published Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Summary First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 and 1900. It is a fascinating collection of Victorian instruction on how and what to paint, linked to crucial advice about art, its meaning and its relation to contemporary life, given by practising artists, important and often popular in their time, but whose lectures and writings are long overdue for reappraisal: Leslie, Hamerton, O'Neil, Poynter, Watts, Leighton, Armitage, Quilter and Herkomer. Here, beyond the familiar voices of Ruskin, Whistler and Pater, we have a whole range of experience from an age in which issues about painting were hotly debated by large numbers of people: professional artists, amateurs, critics, gallery-goers and Academy students. This anthology brings back to life the humour, seriousness, ambitions, eccentricities and controversies of people whose work shaped the nature of mainstream Victorian art
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 21, 2019)
Subject Painting, Victorian -- Great Britain
Art criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
ART -- Techniques -- Painting.
ART -- Reference.
Art criticism
Painting, Victorian
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Harrison, Craig, editor.
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