Unquiet Landscape : Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting by Christopher Neve 9780500295472

Unquiet Landscape : Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting

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Christopher Neve�_Ts classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states of mind? �_~Painting�_T, says Neve, �_~is a process of finding out, and landscape can be its thesis.�_T What he is writing is not precisely art history: it is about pictures, about landscape and about thought. Over the years, he was able to have discussions with many of the thirty or so artists he focuses on, the inspiration for the book having come from his talks with Ben Nicholson; and he has immersed himself in their work, their countryside, their ideas. Because he is a painter himself, and an expert on 20th-century art, Neve is well equipped for such a journey. Few writers have conveyed more vividly the mixture of motives, emotions, unconscious forces and contradictions which culminate in the creative act of painting. Each of the thirteen chapters has a theme and explores its significance for one or more of the artists. The problem of time, for instance, is considered in relation to Paul Nash, God in relation to David Jones, music to Ivon Hitchens, hysteria to Edward Burra, abstraction to Ben Nicholson, �_~the spirit in the mass�_T to David Bomberg. There are also chapters about painters�_T ideas on specific types of country: about Eric Ravilious and the chalk landscape, Joan Eardley and the sea, and Cedric Morris and the garden.

Product Information:

Book ISBN: 9780500295472
Book Author: Christopher Neve
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Book Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Book Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Book Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 14 cm
Book Publication Date: 2020-02-27
Book Pagination: 248 pages, 36 Illustrations, color
Book Weight: 232g

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