Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

The paintings of J.M.W. Turner by Martin Butlin( Book )

9 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 568 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Richard Norman Shaw by Andrew Saint( Book )

8 editions published between 1976 and 2010 in English and held by 561 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint's best-selling book on Shaw and his work--hailed in its original version as "a masterpiece among architectural biographies" by the Evening Standard--features a completely revised text and new introduction and is generously illustrated with new color photographs, many specially commissioned."--Publisher description

A dictionary of British and Irish travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 by John Ingamells( Book )

6 editions published between 1977 and 2009 in English and held by 540 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

While the majority of travellers were young persons making the grand tour - discovering antiquity, the temptations of a brisk and irregular art market, the squalor and the riches of Italian life and travel - there were also many older visitors intent on some professional purpose, including prison reformer John Howard, agronomist Arthur Young and musicologist Charles Burney. Over three hundred artists, sculptors and architects made the trip. The dictionary includes British antiquaries who became guides or art dealers in Rome or Naples, among them Mark Parker, Thomas Jenkins and Colin Morison

Science and the perception of nature : British landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by Charlotte Klonk( Book )

6 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 527 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Charlotte Klonk's deeply researched accounts of the complex and often ambiguous interactions that took place between artists and scientists challenge simplistic accounts of developments in art as mere by-products of scientific progress as well as reductive socio-economic interpretations. For Klonk, the common thread running through the changes in both art and science is the emergence of a new phenomenalist conception of experience around the turn of the century. Phenomenalism involved a commitment to the scrupulous observation of particular phenomena, without making prior assumptions about meaning or underlying causes, and this ideal was common to both artists and scientists. In this way, Klonk argues, the period represents a brief moment of balance before the concerns of science and art split apart into objectivity and subjectivity, respectively

The paintings of J.M.W. Turner by Martin Butlin( Book )

2 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 525 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Holman Hunt and typological symbolism by George P Landow( Book )

3 editions published in 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Although Pre-Raphaelitism has attracted much critical and scholarly attention in the past decade, there still has been no major reconsideration of the work of William Holman Hunt. In this new study, Landow contends that Hunt's version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usualy suposed. Like Ruskin, Hunt believed that a symbolism based on scriptural typology--the method of finding anticipations of Christ in Hebrew history--could produce an ideal art that would solve the problems of Victorian paining. According to Hunt, this elaborate symbolism could simultaneously avoid the dangers of materialism inherent in a realistic style, the dead conventionalism of academic art, and the sentimentality of much contemporary painting"--Jacket

The art of Captain Cook's voyages by Rüdiger Joppien( Book )

8 editions published between 1985 and 1988 in English and held by 511 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Alfred Gilbert by Richard Dorment( Book )

4 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 496 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

James McNeill Whistler by Richard Dorment( Book )

3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Painter, etcher, draughtsman, lithographer, watercolourist, and author of critical essays and aphorisms, James McNeill Whistler had a tremendous influence on the art and aesthetics of his era. Born in Massachusetts in 1834, he settled in London when he was twenty-five years old and for the next four decades produced hundreds of highly acclaimed (and sometimes highly criticised) works. His prodigious output and proficiency, along with his eccentricities, polemics, and arguments with critics, won him wide recognition. This catalogue raisonne of Whistler's drawings, pastels and watercolours makes available many of his works that have never before been exhibited or published and vividly demonstrates the wide range of his art. His drawings reveal the everyday working out of his ideas and note the world as it passed by Whistler with vigour and humour. The pastels include sensitive portraits, vigorous studies of models in the studio, and detailed views of Venetian palaces. The watercolours, perhaps his finest works, catch the subtle colours of northern skies and ever-changing seascapes

Modern art, Britain, and the Great War : witnessing, testimony, and remembrance by Sue Malvern( Book )

6 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 478 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The First World War had a great impact on British modernism and twentieth-century art. This book examines how the British state recruited some of its most controversial artists to produce official art as propaganda and how their work gave witnessed testimony to the trauma of a war that later generations would redeem in acts of remembrance."--Jacket