John Constable Knihy

This exhibition catalog accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, marking the first showing of John Constable's paintings in the United States. Curated by Graham Reynolds, a leading Constable specialist, it features a range of works from small outdoor oil sketches to large finished paintings, highlighting both the landscape subjects Constable favored and his artistic evolution. During Constable's lifetime, England was divided into thirty-nine counties, and he painted scenes primarily from six: Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Sussex. Unlike his contemporary Turner, who explored a broader geographical scope, Constable focused on a limited area, creating a distinct sense of place in his work. The publication includes an introduction to Constable and his oeuvre, along with catalog entries featuring color illustrations of the exhibited works, organized by location. Additional resources include a biographical summary, a chronology of Constable's life, a sketched map of "Constable's England," a bibliography, and suggestions for further reading. Originally published in 1983, this edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.

John Constable is one of the best-known and best-loved of the English Romantic landscape painters. His serene landscapes of his native Suffolk countryside and simple country pursuits are poems to an idyllic, now vanished way of life. His paintings emphasize the constantly changing skies and the effects of light and shade on the landscape. Included in this collection are well-loved favourites such as The Haywain and one of the many studies of Dedham Mill in his beloved Suffolk. The Leaping Horse reveals another side to Constable's talent and shows him as a master of form and movement too.

When words of love do not come to you on their own, then read these letters. Complete, actual love letters of great men like Lord Byron, John Keats and Voltaire. Leaders like Henry VIII, George Washington, and Napoleon, who wrote to his beloved Josephine, "I awake consumed with thoughts of you..." Artists like van Gogh, Mozart, and Beethoven, who famously penned, "Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved..." Dozens of intimate letters, coupled with over a score of period illustrations. Plus fascinating biographies, and insights into the couples' relationships-how they got there, the obstacles they faced, and what happened next. Poet warriors, from the first through the twentieth century, Ovid, Sir Walter Raleigh, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Shelley, Robert Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Pierre Curie, George Bernard Shaw, Jack London, Admiral Peary, Woodrow Wilson, and many more.

Le romantisme, synonyme d'art moderne, incarne intimité, spiritualité, couleur et aspiration vers l'infini, comme le souligne Baudelaire. Ce mouvement artistique et littéraire, qui émerge au début du XIXe siècle, s'étend à travers l'Europe et le Nouveau Monde. Il marque une rupture avec le classicisme et les enseignements académiques, permettant aux artistes de s'exprimer librement à travers leur sensibilité et leur imagination. L'ouvrage, riche de plus de 450 reproductions, offre un panorama exceptionnel de ce mouvement, explorant des thèmes variés allant du mythe de Napoléon à la nostalgie médiévale, des représentations du sacré à l'orientalisme, ainsi que de l'observation des paysages à l'évasion dans le rêve et le fantastique. Le parcours commence avec le préromantisme à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et se termine vers 1860 avec l'émergence du réalisme. En plus des figures emblématiques comme Delacroix et Géricault, le livre met en lumière des artistes moins connus qui ont également contribué à la diffusion du romantisme. Un tableau chronologique et des biographies d'artistes à la fin de l'ouvrage fournissent des repères précieux, offrant une immersion dans l'une des périodes les plus fascinantes de la culture européenne, dont l'influence perdure aujourd'hui.