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This is the first book in English to survey the entire history of watercolor as a self-sufficient medium in all the prominent schools of Western painting. Mr. Reynolds outlines the distinguishing characteristics of watercolor and examines such important forerunners as the illuminated manuscript.
The sixteenth century origins of the technique in Italy and Germany are traced, and also the important developments in Holland, France, and Switzerland during the eighteenth century. The special contribution made by the British school in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, notably in the work of
- J.R. Cozens
- T. Girtin
- J.S. Cotman
- and J.M.W. Turner
and thus falls into perspective in its European context. The advance of Romanticism gave some impetus to the greater and more expressive use of watercolor in France, Holland, Germany, and America; and, of the Impressionists, Paul Cezanne in particular expressed in watercolor ideas which, sometimes less effectively, he was striving to convey in his oil painting.
Most of the crosscurrents of twentieth-century painting have had their counterpart in watercolor, and the conflict of this medium with older traditions is the theme of the final chapter, which brings the story down to the 1960s.
The author has been in charge of the British national collection of watercolors in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, for more than twenty years, and in this book he provides an invaluable guide to the work of some four hundred artists who have used the medium.
CONDITION: Hard Cover with DJ, used with moderate wear to DJ and book in VG condition. 160 illustrations, including 32 in full color. 216 pages, previous owner name inside front cover.
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