TY - BOOK ID - 9177071 TI - Constable : the painter and his landscape. PY - 1983 SN - 0300037538 0300030142 9780300037531 PB - New Haven (Conn.) Yale university DB - UniCat KW - John Constable 1776-1837 (° East Bergholt, Sussex, England) KW - Schilderkunst Groot-Brittannië 19de eeuw John Constable KW - Landschapsschilderkunst KW - Schilderkunst Romantiek KW - 75.07 KW - Schilderkunst schilders KW - Constable, John KW - East Anglia in art KW - East Anglia (England) in art KW - Landscape painting, English KW - -English landscape painting KW - -Constable, John KW - Constable, John, KW - East Anglia (England) KW - Schilderkunst ; Groot-Brittannië ; 19de eeuw ; John Constable KW - Schilderkunst ; Romantiek KW - Schilderkunst ; schilders KW - English landscape painting KW - Konsteblʹ, Dzhon, KW - Kʻang-ssŭ-tʻê-pu-êrh, KW - Konstabŭl, Dzhon, KW - קונסטבל, ג׳והן, KW - In art KW - Constable, John, - 1776-1837. KW - East Anglia (England) - In art KW - Constable, John. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9177071 AB - John Constable's most important paintings have their source in a relatively small area of East Anglia, where he was born and where he spent the first twenty years of his life. These magnificent pictures are crucial to the understanding of the history of landscape painting and of British art, and are the central concern of this book. Michael Rosenthal has drawn extensively on the published and unpublished documentation about Constable and his associates. He considers such topics as the relationship between Constable's painting and contemporary literature, and the effect of the artist's local background on his perception of the landscape. This last theme encompasses not only a comparison of the paintings with the landscapes that they represent but also an analysis of how Constable's own particular social status as the son of a middle-class landowner affected the way he saw the landscape - what he considered worth noticing, for instance - and how these perceptions changed. Rosenthal's lavishly illustrated book provides the first detailed historical and biographical study of the most important group of Constable's paintings. Its close attention to the social and economic developments of the era throws a new and penetrating light on these beautiful paintings. ER -