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Creating the Countryside: The Rural Idyll
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Description for Creating the Countryside: The Rural Idyll
Paperback. The rural idyll is a powerful force in the British national imagination. This highly original and vibrant study will examine how key moments in art history have shaped the concept of the idyll and how contemporary artists continue to access and often challenge this concept. Editor(s): Shirley, Rosemary. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; ACXJ; AGC; AGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 216. .
The rural idyll is a powerful force in the British national imagination. This highly original and vibrant study will examine how key moments in art history have shaped the concept of the idyll and how contemporary artists continue to access and often challenge this concept. From High Art to propaganda, garden centres to air fresheners, contemporary art to computer games - a constellation of powerful images and ideas contribute to our understandings of the rural. This publication offers new ways of thinking about the rural idyll and the countryside more broadly, through the innovative integration ... Read more
The rural idyll is a powerful force in the British national imagination. This highly original and vibrant study will examine how key moments in art history have shaped the concept of the idyll and how contemporary artists continue to access and often challenge this concept. From High Art to propaganda, garden centres to air fresheners, contemporary art to computer games - a constellation of powerful images and ideas contribute to our understandings of the rural. This publication offers new ways of thinking about the rural idyll and the countryside more broadly, through the innovative integration ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Paul Holberton Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911300106
SKU
V9781911300106
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for Creating the Countryside: The Rural Idyll
A stand-alone book rather than an exhibition catalogue ... wide-ranging and provocative, and ... often very funny.
The Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement