Ce catalogue accompagne une grande rétrospective consacrée à William Blake par la Tate Britain, du 11 septembre 2019 au 2 février 2020. Avec plus de 300 oeuvres originales comprenant peintures, gravures, lithographies et aquarelles, cette exposition, la plus ciomplète sur l'artiste anglais depuis plus de 20 ans, rend hommage à son travail pluriel d'artiste visuel, poète et érudit. L'accent est mis sur ses rêves de présentation de son oeuvre, puisque l'exposition reproduit à l'identique la petite salle d'exposition qu'il avait conçue pour ses oeuvres en 1809, mais propose également une immersion digitale en très grand format dans ses oeuvres foisonnant de détails. Existe également en version reliée.
It was a century of war (mostly) and peace (occasionally), of extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty, gargantuan appetites and desperate famines, high ideals and hypocrisy, a century of intellectual, social and religious turmoil. In this fertile turbulence flourished one of Britain's greatest artists: painter, printmaker, satirist, and social critic William Hogarth, of whom the essayist and poet Charles Lamb once said, 'Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read'.
Illustrating the full range of Hogarth's most important paintings and prints, this book shows them in a new light, juxtaposed with work by major European contemporaries who influenced him or took their inspiration from him in their painting of modern life - including Watteau, Chardin, Troost and Longhi. Hogarth is revealed not only as a key figure in British art history, but also as a major European artist.
It is also a tale of four cities: London, Paris, Venice and Amsterdam, represented in maps from the period. The themes of city life, social protest, sexuality and satire which come to the fore in the art of Hogarth and his contemporaries are very much live today.
Ce catalogue accompagne une grande rétrospective consacrée à William Blake par la Tate Britain, du 11 septembre 2019 au 2 février 2020. Avec plus de 300 oeuvres originales comprenant peintures, gravures, lithographies et aquarelles, cette exposition, la plus ciomplète sur l'artiste anglais depuis plus de 20 ans, rend hommage à son travail pluriel d'artiste visuel, poète et érudit. L'accent est mis sur ses rêves de présentation de son oeuvre, puisque l'exposition reproduit à l'identique la petite salle d'exposition qu'il avait conçue pour ses oeuvres en 1809, mais propose également une immersion digitale en très grand format dans ses oeuvres foisonnant de détails. Existe également en version brochée.
Comic art - art that gains its effect through visual humour, caricature, exaggeration and slapstick, whether in print, reproduction or through the moving image - has long helped shape and inform British culture.
This entertaining and irreverent history aims to present a wide-screen vision of comic art, from the eighteenth century to the present day, it features works by classic cartoonists and caricaturists, from Gillray, Rowlandson and Cruikshank, to Steve Bell, Robert Crumb, David Low and Ronald Searle. Beginning with the origins of the caricature, the book encompasses cartoons, comic books, film, photography, audio, new media and contemporary art. It traces the development of different genres and techniques, and deals with the development of successive media, from the engraving through to the newspaper and the online blog.
Through extensive illustrations of classic and little-known facets of comic art, the book succeeds in telling an alternative history of Britain. Leading critics are joined by well-known comedians, cartoonists and historians, making this a very contemporary take on what is still a rich and vibrant seam in the public life of the nation.
From the luminous landscapes of Turner, Cozens and Girtin, through to the evocative watercolours of William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites, the 'golden age' of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British watercolour has defined a powerful ideal of British art. Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, and including four searching essays, this richly illustrated book celebrates the greatest artists of the genre while throwing new light on this much-loved medium. As well as works by acknowledged masters, paintings by modern artists including John Piper, Graham Sutherland and Anish Kapoor are presented alongside lesser-known works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Works by amateur and long-overlooked artists are also featured, providing a thought-provoking new exploration of the richness and variety of watercolour in Britain.
