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Peter Lord - Looking Out, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Looking Out

Welsh painting, social class and international context

Av Peter Lord

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'Over the last twenty five years, almost single-handedly,Peter Lord has transformed a collection of poorlyunderstood evidence of art created in Wales, and lazytheoretical assumptions about it, into a discipline in itsown right, equipped with analytical frameworks andsupported by an accumulating body of knowledge.'-Andrew Green, Wales Arts Review (on The Tradition)The six sequential essays in this collection provide anarrative of a century and a half of Welsh painting,written with an emphasis on issues of social classand national identity. Through his earlier writing,Peter Lord has contributed to the establishment of anhistorical tradition of Welsh painting, but because itdoes not feature in the wider story of western art historyas presently told, the work revealed continues to beperceived as marginal, existing in isolation from ideasand movements in other countries. These essays breaknew ground by discussing the concerns of Welsh paintersnot only in domestic terms but also in the context of theways in which artists in other parts of Europe and in theUnited States reacted to the common underlying causesof those concerns. The author challenges the idea that thework of Welsh painters is relevant only to the evolutionof their own communities and, through confident anddetailed analysis, validates their pictures also in terms ofthe arts of other western cultures.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-11-01
  • Mått: 230 x 270 x 35 mm
  • Vikt: 1 318 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 300
  • Förlag: Parthian Books
  • ISBN: 9781912681976
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Peter Lord was born in Exeter in 1948, andnow lives near Aberystwyth. He took a degreein Fine Art at Reading University in 1970.He has published and broadcast extensivelyon the visual culture of Wales in bothWelsh and English languages, and curatedmajor exhibitions for national institutions.Between 1998 and 2003 he published thethree volumes of The Visual Culture of Wales,which is regarded as the authoritative texton the subject. In 2013 an autobiography,Relationships with Pictures (Parthian) waspublished, followed by The Tradition: a NewHistory of Welsh Art 1400-1990 (Parthian),which in 2017 was Wales Non-fiction Bookof the Year. His most recent monograph,William Roos and the Itinerant Life (OrielMon, 2020) breaks new ground as the firstdetailed study of an itinerant portrait painterworking in Britain.

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'Over the last twenty-five years, almost single-handedly, Peter Lord has transformed a collection of poorly understood evidence of art created in Wales, and lazy theoretical assumptions about it, into a discipline in its own right, equipped with analytical frameworks and supported by an accumulating body of knowledge.' –Andrew Green, Wales Arts Review (on The Tradition)The six sequential essays in this collection provide a narrative of a century and a half of Welsh painting, written with an emphasis on issues of social class and national identity. Through his earlier writing, Peter Lord has contributed to the establishment of an historical tradition of Welsh painting, but because it does not feature in the wider story of western art history as presently told, the work revealed continues to be perceived as marginal, existing in isolation from ideas and movements in other countries. These essays break new ground by discussing the concerns of Welsh painters not only in domestic terms but also in the context of the ways in which artists in other parts of Europe and in the United States reacted to the common underlying causes of those concerns. The author challenges the idea that the work of Welsh painters is relevant only to the evolution of their own communities and, through confident and detailed analysis, validates their pictures also in terms of the arts of other western cultures.

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