Visual and verbal sketch in british romanticism, the
Auteur :
Sha, Richard C.
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812234206
Date de publication :
29 août 1997
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
With their broken lines and hasty brushwork, sketches acquired enormous ideological and aesthetic power during the Romantic period in England. Sha examines the shifting economic and aesthetic value of the sketch in sources ranging from auction catalogs and sketching manuals to novels that employed scenes of sketching and courtship.