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Victorian Painters: Vol. 2 Historical Survey and Plates Hardcover – May 1, 1995

by Christopher Wood (Author)
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A scholarly survey of Victorian painting in which the author discusses the genre?s development and characteristics, setting it within the context of the time, illustrated with 47 full color plates and 750 black and white plates which reflect the tremendous output and range of the period.
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    480 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    ACC Publishing Group
  4. Publication date
    May 1, 1995
  5. Dimensions
    8.83 x 1.42 x 11.17 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1851491724
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1851491728
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A writer on and dealer in Victorian art, Wood has revised and enlarged into two volumes this third edition of Volume 4 in the six-volume series "Dictionary of British Art." The first book is a dictionary of painters with over 11,000 entries; the second book is well illustrated, with 750 black-and-white and 40 color plates containing an historical survey of Victorian art, defined as the period in English art from 1837 to 1901. The illustrations encompass everything from the fantastically imaginative to the Pre-Raphaelites, the social realists, Turner's pre-Impressionism, the end of Romanticism, landscape painting, etc. A catalog following this survey shows examples of many major works. Entries in the first book provide dates that an artist was working, professional affiliation, biography of exhibits, and, in the case of Turner, Rossetti, Ruskin, and other major figures, a bibliography. An asterisk in the dictionary of painters denotes the artists' representation in this catalog. There are many obscure painters here, with only one- or two-line descriptions, a comprehensiveness that should benefit curators, collectors, and dealers who need to authenticate a given artist as well as those studying the Victorian era. Wood describes the popular view of Victorian art, and his evaluation organizes the wealth of its offerings and documents its history. Together these books serve as a necessary, comprehensive, and readable reference source in the study of British art and as sales material for the market in Victorian painting. Recommended for public and special collections.?Ellen Bates, New York
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ACC Publishing Group; 3rd Revised ed. edition (May 1, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1851491724
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1851491728
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.59 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.83 x 1.42 x 11.17 inches
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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential reference work, improved but still short on colour
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As an owner of the 1978 2nd edition of Christopher Wood's 'The Dictionary of Victorian Painters', I bought this volume primarily to expand the plates section. I was disappointed to find that the original 500 black & white illustrations were exactly repeated in the new volume, and that only 250 were new. Colour is confined to the first 100 pages, being 'Victorian Painting - a Survey'. This survey, however, is an excellent scholarly work, beautifully written and illustrated, which I would have wanted to buy as a separate.

What a difference colour makes in photographs of paintings! The beauty of the first third of this volume leaves one longing to see the colours of the remainder. Many of Christopher Wood's original picture selection were photographed in auction rooms and commercial galleries, so these works are now inaccessible in private collections. However, numerous major and stunningly-coloured paintings are in public galleries whose curators would probably have been delighted to replace the old black and white images, previously supplied, with modern digital colour photographs. In this day of routine digital photography for online auction catalogues there can be no shortage of good colour illustrations of victorian paintings passing through the major auction houses.

The importance of the book, taken together with Christopher Wood's volume of text, remains unchanged. It is the best and most comprehensive reference for identifying the artists of the Victorian period, and placing their work into its historical and stylistic context.
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