FREDERICK WALKER AND THE IDYLLISTS by Donato Esposito ( 9781848221628 )

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Title:

FREDERICK WALKER AND THE IDYLLISTS

Volume:

2017

By:

Donato Esposito

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1848221622

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9781848221628

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Publisher:

LUND HUMPHRIES PUBLISHERS LTD

Pub. date:

28 July, 2017

Pages:

192

Description:

This book is the first in over century to examine the important work of Frederick Walker and his circle. Their common aim was to respond sensitively to nature and depict the place of man within it. This book provides both the perfect introduction to the Victorian art world and a fresh perspective on Walker and his associates.

Synopsis:

This is the first book in over a century to examine the important work of the watercolour artist Frederick Walker (1840-75) and his closest artistic allies. He was greatly admired (and collected) by Vincent van Gogh and was described by Millais as 'the greatest artist of the century' and yet his premature death at the age of 35 cut short his promising career. Walker, together with his close friends George John Pinwell (1842-75) and John William North (1842-1924), forged new artistic identities that sought the perfection of the world around them and the distillation of beauty from seemingly mundane subjects. Donato Esposito focuses successive chapters on the lives and works of each of the core members of Walker's group, charting their unconventional journey from a loosely bound collective rooted in the London-based black-and-white world of commercial illustration to a renowned grouping known as the Idyllists, respected and eagerly collected by galleries and private individuals in Europe, America and Australia.The book, which reproduces many of the Idyllists' works in colour for the first time, represents a vital contribution to the literature on Victorian art and restores the Idyllists to their rightful place in the history of British 19th-century art.

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70 col illus, 30 b/w illus

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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

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