From the landscapes of Wilson and Constable to the visionary imagery of Blake and Bacon, this book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, is a beautifully illustrated survey of British art from I75O to 1950. Spanning two hundred years, British Vision presents some of the most celebrated works in British art history, selected fi'om public and private collections in Europe and the USA by Robert Hoozee, Director of the Ghent Museum, drawing on the expertise of the scholars Andrew Dempsey,John Gage, Mark Haworth-Booth and Timothy Hyman. Among the great artists whose work appears on the book's pages are William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, John Constable,Joseph Mallord William Turner, Richard Dadd, Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Edward Burne-Jones, Stanley Spencer, Graham S utherland, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

From the landscapes of Wilson and Constable to the visionary imagery of Blake and Bacon, this book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, is a beautifully illustrated survey of British art from I75O to 1950. Spanning two hundred years, British Vision presents some of the most celebrated works in British art history, selected fi'om public and private collections in Europe and the USA by Robert Hoozee, Director of the Ghent Museum, drawing on the expertise of the scholars Andrew Dempsey,John Gage, Mark Haworth-Booth and Timothy Hyman. Among the great artists whose work appears on the book's pages are William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, John Constable,Joseph Mallord William Turner, Richard Dadd, Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Edward Burne-Jones, Stanley Spencer, Graham S utherland, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

Essays by a group of distinguished art historians focus on two defining characteristics o f British art, observation and imagination, seen within the context of Society (Changing Society, British Humour, Modern Life),Landscape (Points of View, Everyday Landscape, Atmosphere and Detail) and the Visionary. This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a sumptuous record of the most comprehensive exhibition of British art to be displayed in recent years, and represents a unique opportunity to discover the creative forces that shaped British art over two ccnturies.

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introductory Essays

Introduction, Robert Hoozee

Betwccn the Mcticulous and the Mad, Timothy Hyman

The Vision of Landscape, John Gagc

Observation of Society, Robert Hoozcc

BRITISH HUMOUR

James Gillray

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MODERN LIFE

Walter Siekert

Bill Brandt

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Observation of Landscapc, Robert Hoozec

POINTS OF VIEW

Thomas Jones

Thomas Girtin

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EVERYDAY I

John Constablc

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ATMOSPHERE AND DETAIL

Ford Madox Brown

Roger Fcnton, Double Bridge on the Machno, Mark Haworth-Booth

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MODERN LANDSCAPE

Paul Nash, Landseape of the Vernal[ Equinox (III), David Fraser Jenkins

Victor Pasmore

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The Visionary, Robert Hoozee

William Blake, The Sea of Time and Space, David Bindman

John Martin, The Deluge, Angus Trumble

J.M.W. Turncr, Great House: the Drawing Room, East Cowes Castle, Ian Warrell

William Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat, Christopher Newall

Jacob Epstein, Consummatum Est, Robert Upstone

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Short Titles

Bibliography

Lcndcrs to the Exhibition

Authors' Information

Credits

Index