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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication 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).

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