Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness

by Matthew Craske

A revelatory study of one of the 18th century's greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), though conventionally known as a 'painter of light', returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of innocence, isolation and tragedy.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913107124
• ISBN13: 9781913107123
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 4.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.9" x 11.5"