An Indolent and Blundering Art?: The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England

By Emma Chambers

Book Overview

First published in 1999, Chambers explores English etching changed that radically during the nineteenth century. This book looks into the freedom and directness of the etching process became a key plank in a sustained attempt to raise the status of etching in Britain spearheaded by artists such as Francis Seymour Haden and James McNeill Whistler and members of the Etching Club. An Indolent and Blundering Art? Opens with a description of the use of language and art criticism to redefine etching

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138314676
• ISBN13: 9781138314672
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"