Constable in Love - Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter

Informationen zum Autor Martin Gayford has been art critic for the Spectator and the Sunday Times , and Chief European Art Critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are: A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney ; Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud ; Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter ; The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles ; The Penguin Book of Art Writing , of which he was the co-editor; and contributions to many catalogues. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children. Klappentext Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph . He is currently Chief European art critic for Bloomberg. Among his publications are: The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles , The Penguin Book of Art Writing , of which he was co-editor, and contributions to many catalogues. In 2009 he co-curated the exhibition Constable Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery and Compton Verney. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children. Zusammenfassung John Constable and Maria Bicknell might have been in love but their marriage was a most unlikely prospect. For seven long years the couple were forced to correspond and meet clandestinely. But it was during this period of longing that Constable developed as a painter.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Gayford, Gayford Martin
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.02.2010
• EAN: 9780141031965
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103196-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; ART / Individual Artists / General, ART / Reference, ART / History / Romanticism, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting