Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 568 g
Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 568 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
ISBN: 978-1-108-05181-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The celebrated Victorian narrative painter William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was a born raconteur. His two-volume autobiography of 1887 ran to three editions in the same year. The third edition is reissued here, together with its supplementary volume of 1888. Frith was an ideal commentator on his age. He never lost his early interest in literary and historical subjects, and moved in the highest artistic and literary circles. Yet he also saw himself as a man of the people. His most famous works were his 'modern-life' panoramas, Ramsgate Sands (1854), Derby Day (1858) and The Railway Station (1862). Discussing such projects, he reflects on everything from costume to portraiture, art dealers to female artists, and even picture frames. Volume 1 covers his childhood, training, friendships with Dickens and others, and the phenomenal success of his first crowd scenes, up to and including The Marriage of the Prince of Wales (1865).
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Early days; 2. My future destiny discussed; 3. My career determined; 4. The school of art; 5. The life school; 6. Practice in portrait-painting; 7. 'Posting' from Harrogate to London; 8. First attempts at subject-pictures; 9. My first success; 10. Elected an associate; 11. The Old English Merrymaking; 12. Dinner-party at Lord Northwick's; 13. On subjects; 14. Picture-seeing in Belgium and Holland; 15. Service of art in detection of crime; 16. The Coming of Age; 17. Subjects from Goldsmith, Smollett, and Molière; 18. The hanging committee; 19. Hanging reminiscences; 20. Ramsgate Sands; 21. The Derby Day; 22. Portrait of Charles Dickens; 23. Success of The Railway Station; 24. The Marriage of the Prince of Wales; 25. The great actors of my youth.
