Scottish art / Murdo Macdonald.
Macdonald, Murdo, 1955-
2000
N6772 .M18 2000 (Mapit)
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Title Scottish art / Murdo Macdonald.
Author Macdonald, Murdo, 1955-
ISBN 9780500203330 (pbk.)
0500203334 (pbk.)
Publication Details New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2000.
Language English
Description 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Call Number N6772 .M18 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 709/.411
Summary This volume discusses the distinctive personalities & individual genius that have formed the character of Scottish art & is particularly opportune at a time when the issue & nature of Scottish identity have come to the foreground. Annotation. A well-illustrated compendium, from prehistory through the 20th century, tracing the themes and ideas that Scottish artists have continually returned to, forming an overarching culture that is studded with distinct and colorful personalities. It's a vivid history, though the edition's small type, particularly in the faint sans-serif captions, is hard on older eyes. Macdonald, a painter, teaches the history of Scottish art at the U. of Dundee.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series World of art.
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Ch. 1. Prehistory and Early History. The First Art. The Early Celts. The Influence of Rome
Ch. 2. The Development of Christian Art. Picts and Gaels. Northumbrians. Books and Crosses. The Lordship of the Isles and the West Highland School of Sculpture
Ch. 3. Loss and Reconstruction. Reformation and Rough Wooing. George Jamesone and the Rebirth of Scottish Painting. A Grammar of Painting in Place
Ch. 4. Classicism and Celticism. A Landscape made Classical. Artists and Intelligentsia. Hamilton's Iliad. The Origin of Painting. Runciman's Ossian
Ch. 5. Art and Philosophy. Henry Raeburn and Alexander Nasmyth. Interpreting the Enlightenment: David Wilkie. Towards a National School of Sculpture
Ch. 6. Nineteenth-Century Narratives. Hispanicism, Orientalism and Scottish History. Painting, Religion, Photography. Wilderness as Backdrop. Looking Inward: David Scott and William Bell Scott. Artists and Antiquarians. Robert Scott Lauder and his Students. Heroes and Monuments
Ch. 7. Modernity and Revivals. The Glasgow School of Painting. Mackintosh's Glasgow. Photography and Etching. Arts, Crafts and Celtic Revival in Edinburgh
Ch. 8. Twentieth-Century Pluralism. The Colourists. The Edinburgh Group. The Scottish National War Memorial. James Cowie and his Influence. Experimental Landscape. Glasgow in the 1930s and 1940s. Post-War Diversity
Epilogue: Deconstructing Stereotypes and Reappropriating Symbols.

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