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Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston (Hardcover, 2011)
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A devotee of the great visionary William Blake, Samuel Palmer became the lynchpin of the first British art movement. Leading a band of fellow artists - the brotherhood of Ancients - out of London to the village of Shoreham in Kent, he set out to create a new rural ideal. His paintings of slumbering shepherds and tumbling blossoms, of mystical cornfields and bright sickle moons, capture a world in which landscape and politics, religion and culture all meet. They reflect the concerns of the nineteenth century which his life spanned. In his day, like his mentor Blake, Samuel Palmer was much neglected. He did not attempt the grand dramas of J.M.W. Turner or follow John Constable's profoundly naturalistic path. But he belongs in their pantheon of great British Romantics as much for the numinous visions that are embodied in his loveliest paintings as for the vagaries of a life story in which he so often failed. If English tradition had ever encompassed the making of icons they would not have been so different from Palmer's enchanted landscapes. Mysterious Wisdom offers for the first time in more than thirty-five years a vivid and intimate portrait of Palmer who, over the course of the past century, has become increasingly treasured as one of the most extraordinarily talented and quirkily eccentric figures of the British art world, or - as the art historian Kenneth Clark believed - an English Van Gogh.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139780747595878
eBay Product ID (ePID)102680527
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Book TitleMysterious Wisdom: the Life and Work of Samuel Palmer
AuthorRachel Campbell-Johnston
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height234mm
Item Width153mm
Item Weight685g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRachel Campbell-Johnston
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 19 Apr, 2024
Excellent title
Book in excellent condition. It is an interesting look into the life of one of The UK's greatest painters and his sources of inspiration. It is an easy book to read and illustrations are extremely good. Very good value.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 16 Jul, 2022
Worthy biography
Excellent packing and despatch. Product just as described. Shame it's a former library book but a very read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 01 Dec, 2021
Fascinating
Fascinating artist and a compelling readVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
