The painted world : from illumination to abstraction / Mark Evans.

By:

Evans, Mark, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : V&A Publications ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005.Description: 144 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:

185177467X (hbk.)
9781851774678 (hbk.)
1851774688 (pbk.)
9781851774685 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759 EVA

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	759 EVA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100313577

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Painted World takes the outstanding collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum as the starting point for an all inclusive survey of painting from the Middle Ages to the present day, encompassing painted furniture, textiles and ceramics as well as traditional oil on canvas.
The history of painting is often reduced to the story of a tiny elite of easel pictures, composed exclusively of old masters and avant-garde works. Many British paintings, watercolours, miniatures, icons and non-European works relate uneasily to this twin canon of old and modern masters. This richly illustrated account seeks to redress the balance by exploring the wider history of painting, and includes a broad range of painted works, from stained glass to items of costume, in addition to numerous oil paintings and watercolours.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-141) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Mark Evans is Senior Curator of Paintings in the Word & Image department at the V&A. He has written extensively on painting from the late Middle Ages to the early twentieth century and he is the author of numerous books including The Royal Collection- Paintings from Windsor Castle (1990), Impressions of Venice from Turner to Monet (1992) and Princes as Patrons- The Art Collections of the Prince of Wales from the Renaissance to the Present Day (1998).