Contributions

  • Wright, Joseph, 1734-1797. - Contributor

Publication

1999 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

20,000 words, Guess

Page Count

80 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads3448797
  • LibraryThing1045624

Classifications

  • DDC759.2
  • LCCND497.W8 D36 1999

Description

"Joseph Wright painted some of the most powerful works of eighteenth-century British art: blacksmiths hammering a glowing bar of iron, dramatic demonstrations on scientific apparatus, erupting volcanoes, gloomy prisons, a fashionably dressed gentleman reclining full-length in a forest. Stephen Daniels addresses this interesting diversity by looking closely at the inextricable links between Wright's art and the different worlds of the Enlightenment movement that so fascinated and inspired him. Wright's unique connection with the innovations of his age, together with his interest in new techniques and his use of an unusually wide range of pictorial and written sources, single him out as one of the most original and enterprising artists of his time."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

English PaintingWright, joseph, 1734-1797Criticism and interpretationWright, Joseph, 1734-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation

Series Statement

  • British artists

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