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Victorian Visionary : Highlights from the Watts Gallery Collection
出版Yale University Press, 2008
主題Art / GeneralArt / Criticism & TheoryArt / History / GeneralArt / EuropeanArt / Individual Artists / Monographs
ISBN03001425799780300142570
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=V33qAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Widely regarded as a genius and as the greatest painter of the Victorian age, George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a ceaseless experimenter throughout his seventy-year career. He was not only the finest and most penetrating portraitist of his age but also a sculptor, landscape painter, and symbolist. This beautifully illustrated book encompasses the work of his entire career, from his early self-portrait in 1834 and first exhibited painting in the Royal Academy in 1837 to his most iconic work, Hope, and the remarkable, almost abstract painting, Sower of the Systems, completed in 1903. In addition, the book includes historic photographs and archival materials, especially concerning the establishment in 1904 of the Watts Picture Gallery in Compton, Surrey, for the permanent exhibition of his art. Essays by leading scholars examine the artist's output, life, reception, and legacy.



Exhibition Schedule:

Guildhall Art Gallery (November 11, 2008-April 2009)