Gainsborough
A Portrait
$37.13
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2018
Summary
Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and *Observer
‘Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves’ John Carey, Sunday Times
‘Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life’ *Literary Review*
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his finger ends. He was a gentle and empathetic family man, but had a shockingly lo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474601061 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1474601065 |
| Author: | James Hamilton |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 345g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 145mm x 27mm |
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Critics Review
With great imaginative verve [Hamilton recreates] the social atmosphere of the places where the artist and his family settled … [Hamilton] is constantly fascinating about the paintings … His book is gorgeously illustrated and compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves. Almost as good as owning a Gainsborough - Sunday Times
About The Author
James Hamilton
James Hamilton is an art and cultural historian. His books include TURNER: A LIFE, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and A STRANGE BUSINESS: MAKING ART AND MONEY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN, which in 2014 was named Art Book of the Year by the SUNDAY TIMES. Hamilton was curator of art collections and projects in Portsmouth, Wakefield, Sheffield, Leeds and the University of Birmingham, where he is a Fellow of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts.
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