Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art - The Complete Writings on Art

Zusatztext Its contents are a bizarre and wondrous synthesis: a series of views that, taken together, form a remarkably consistent literary and artistic autobiography, and arguably the most ebullient series of critical expostulations on art from 1882-1937 to be found in print anywhere. Klappentext Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was a major European artist and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century! whose statements on art from the 1880s to the 1930s have been used by artists and writers for more than half a century. Containing over 400 entries! this collection offers new insight into Sickert as an artist and provides valuable information about other British artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zusammenfassung Walter Richard Sickert was a major European artist and critic of the late 19th and early 20th century, whose statements on art from the 1880s to the 1930s have been used by artists and writers on art for more than half a century. This is a comprehensive selection of his writings.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chronology


• A Complete Edition of Walter Sickert's Art Criticism


• Appendix


• Index

Report

... no self-respecting student of British art should be without this volume, and every library should own one. The Art Book

Product details

• Authors: Walter Sickert, Walter Richard Sickert
• Assisted by: Anna Gruetzner Robins (Editor), Anna Gruetzner Robins (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2003
• EAN: 9780199261697
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926169-7
• No. of pages: 746
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Essays, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Literary essays, Individual artists, art monographs