Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting

Author:   Christopher Neve
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN:  

9780500295472


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   27 February 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Christopher Neve
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight:   0.230kg
ISBN:  

9780500295472


ISBN 10:   0500295476
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   27 February 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

1. The Problem of Time * 2. White: The Chalk Landscape * 3. Black * 4. The Need for Roots * 5. The Idea of the Garden * 6. The Grid and the Town * 7. Seeing Becomes Feeling * 8. The Sea * 9. Inlets and Estuaries * 10. God * 11. Psychology * 12. Abstraction * 13. Appetite

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'Fierce, witty, wise, elegiac, supremely indifferent to fashion and confident in the long view, this is among the best books written about landscape' - Financial Times 'Original and engaging ... [a] modern classic' - Country Life (Book of the Week)


'Original and engaging … [a] modern classic' - Country Life (Book of the Week) 'Fierce, witty, wise, elegiac, supremely indifferent to fashion and confident in the long view, this is among the best books written about landscape' - Financial Times 'A fascinating, considered and evocative work' - The Critic


'Original and engaging ... [a] modern classic' - Country Life (Book of the Week) 'Fierce, witty, wise, elegiac, supremely indifferent to fashion and confident in the long view, this is among the best books written about landscape' - Financial Times 'A fascinating, considered and evocative work' - The Critic


Author Information

Christopher Neve is a painter and one of the leading experts on British art of the 20th century, and has written several books and numerous articles. For many years he was art critic on the staff of Country Life.

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