Samuel Palmer
WARNING
You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com
Shadows on the Wall
William Vaughan
View Inside
Format: ClothPrice: $65.00
Our shopping cart only supports Mozilla Firefox. Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase.
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet William Blake, Palmer brought a new spiritual intensity to his interpretation of nature, producing works of unprecedented boldness and fervency. Pre-eminent scholar William Vaughan—who organized the Palmer retrospective at the British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005—draws on unpublished diaries and letters, offering a fresh interpretation of one of the most attractive and sympathetic, yet idiosyncratic, figures of the 19th century. Far from being a recluse, as he is often presented, Palmer was actively engaged in Victorian cultural life and sought to exert a moral power through his artwork. Beautifully illustrated with Palmer's visionary and enchanted landscapes, the book contains rich studies of his work, influences, and resources. Vaughan also shows how later, enthralled by the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Palmer manipulated his own artistic image to harmonize with it. Little appreciated in his lifetime, Palmer is now hailed as a precursor of modernism in the 20th century.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
William Vaughan is professor emeritus of history of art at Birkbeck College at the University of London.
ISBN: 9780300209853
Publication Date: August 4, 2015
Publishing Partner: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Publication Date: August 4, 2015
Publishing Partner: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
412 pages, 9 1/2 x 11
180 color + 120 b/w illus.
180 color + 120 b/w illus.
