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Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall
William Vaughan
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Description for Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall
Hardback. Num Pages: 412 pages, 180 color + 120 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB; AGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 301 x 260 x 36. Weight in Grams: 2354.
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet William Blake, Palmer brought a new spiritual intensity to his interpretation of nature, producing works of unprecedented boldness and fervency. Pre-eminent scholar William Vaughan-who organized the Palmer retrospective at the British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005-draws on unpublished diaries and letters, offering a fresh interpretation of one of the most attractive and sympathetic, yet idiosyncratic, figures of the 19th century. Far from being a recluse, as he is often presented, Palmer was actively ... Read more
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet William Blake, Palmer brought a new spiritual intensity to his interpretation of nature, producing works of unprecedented boldness and fervency. Pre-eminent scholar William Vaughan-who organized the Palmer retrospective at the British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005-draws on unpublished diaries and letters, offering a fresh interpretation of one of the most attractive and sympathetic, yet idiosyncratic, figures of the 19th century. Far from being a recluse, as he is often presented, Palmer was actively ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
412
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300209853
SKU
V9780300209853
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About William Vaughan
William Vaughan is professor emeritus of history of art at Birkbeck College at the University of London.
Reviews for Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall
Vaughan's Samuel Palmer, with its many gorgeously reproduced images, shows Palmer's deeply rural world . . . Palmer was an artist of an imaginary, unspoiled Arcadian England that nonetheless referenced contemporary costume and details of domestic architecture. -Kate Flint, Public Books
Kate Flint
Public Books
[A] substantial, fully illustrated, color monograph . . . [that] presents ... Read more
Kate Flint
Public Books
[A] substantial, fully illustrated, color monograph . . . [that] presents ... Read more