The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century

Arts & Photography

Forrester, Gillian

Wilcox, Scott

O'Neill, Morna

Sloan, Kim

History & Criticism

YC British Art

Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. British artists including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable raised landscape painting to new heights and their work reached global audiences through the circulation of engravings. Thomas Cole, born in England, emigrated to the United States in 1818, and first absorbed the picturesque and sublime through print media. Cole transformed British and continental European traditions to create a distinctive American form of landscape painting. The authors here explore the role of prints as agents of artistic transmission and look closely at how Cole’s own creative process was driven by works on paper such as drawings, notebooks, letters, and manuscripts. Also considered is the importance of the parallel works of William Guy Wall, best known for his pioneering Hudson River Portfolio. Beautifully illustrated with works on paper ranging from watercolors to etchings, mezzotints, aquatints, engravings, and lithographs, as well as notable paintings, this book offers important insights into Cole’s formulation of a profound new category in art—the American sublime.

Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance

Barringer, Tim

Raab, Jennifer

Individual Artists

Yale University Press

Education Policy Unravelled

Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. It charts the continuity of policy development along neo-liberal lines, taking an historical perspective and moving from New Labour to the emerging position of the Coalition government. Contrary to popular belief about recent radical change in education policy, the author team draws attention to the fact that there have been strong similarities and nuanced disagreements between successive modern governments.Written in an accessible style, the book contains a number of activities and pedagogical features designed to appeal to students, to inform thinking and understanding around key policy issues. This is an invaluable guide for engaging with education policy as it uses a variety of key elements of policy theory in order to support students through some of the complexities involved in contemporary policy analysis and critique.

Education & Teaching

Garratt, Dean

Higher & Continuing Education

Continuum

A comprehensive introduction the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation which supports readers to engage in contemporary policy analysis.>

Bloomsbury Academic

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 184pp. Good, tight, review copy. As new but for very occassional biro note.

Turner's 'Drawing Book': The Liber Studiorum

TATE GALLERY

Turner, J.M.W.

Tate Gallery Pubn

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