Painting out of the Ordinary : Modernity and the Art of Everday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century England - David H. Solkin

Painting out of the Ordinary

Modernity and the Art of Everday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century England

By: David H. Solkin

Hardcover | 15 July 2008 | Edition Number 1

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At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, a new generation of painters led by the precociously talented David Wilkie took London's art world by storm. Their novel approach to the depiction of everyday life marked the beginning a trajectory that links the art of the Age of Revolution with the postmodern culture of today.

What emerged from the imagery of Wilkie and other early 19th-century British genre painters-among them William Mulready, Edward Bird, and the controversial watercolorist Thomas Heaphy-was a sense that common people were increasingly bound up with the exceptional events of history, that traditional boundaries between country and city were melting away, and that a more regularized and dynamic present was everywhere encroaching upon the customary patterns of the past.



Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Industry Reviews
". . . fascinating. . . . While the book's narrow focus seems appropriate for specialized/graduate libraries, the essays in each of the six chapters address broader themes of 19th-century visual culture and provide exemplary visual and contextual analysis of standard, and, more often, lesser-known works."- Choice * Choice *

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