Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Andrew Hemingway

Britain in the early nineteenth century, then the most advanced bourgeois society, saw the emergence of a new type of landscape painting, distinguished by its modern imagery and innovative naturalism. The transition was not straightforward; painters were faced with the problem of representing modern life within the landscape tradition, a tradition centred on the pastoral and the picturesque. It is the various methods by which artists negotiated this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521391180
• ISBN13: 9780521391184
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 3.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"