John Constable Knihy

Demy folio, [30cm/12n], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 208. Fully illustrated with b-w hlaftones and color plates

Traces the life and career of the great English landscape painter and discusses the influence of his background and literature of the period on his work

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.

256pp, 231 illustrations including 98 in colour

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.

Constable [hardcover] Venning, Barry [Mar 29, 1993]