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

Author:   Christopher Neve
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
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9780500295472


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   27 February 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Christopher Neve's classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states of mind? 'Painting', says Neve, 'is a process of finding out, and landscape can be its thesis.' What he is writing is not precisely art history: it is about pictures, about landscape and about thought. Over the years, he was able to have discussions with many of the thirty or so artists he focuses on, the inspiration for the book having come from his talks with Ben Nicholson; and he has immersed himself in their work, their countryside, their ideas. Because he is a painter himself, and an expert on 20th-century art, Neve is well equipped for such a journey. Few writers have conveyed more vividly the mixture of motives, emotions, unconscious forces and contradictions which culminate in the creative act of painting. Each of the thirteen chapters has a theme and explores its significance for one or more of the artists. The problem of time, for instance, is considered in relation to Paul Nash, God in relation to David Jones, music to Ivon Hitchens, hysteria to Edward Burra, abstraction to Ben Nicholson, 'the spirit in the mass' to David Bomberg. There are also chapters about painters' ideas on specific types of country: about Eric Ravilious and the chalk landscape, Joan Eardley and the sea, and Cedric Morris and the garden.

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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 stock   Availability explained
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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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'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


'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


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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