The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730 1840

by John Barrell

Book Overview

The eighteenth-century saw a radical change in the depiction of country life in English painting: feeling less constrained by the conventions of classical or theatrical pastoral, landscape painters attempted to offer a portrayal of what life was really like, or was thought to be like, in England; and this inevitably involved a distinct approach to the depiction of the rural poor. John Barrell's influential 1980 study shows why the poor began to be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521276551
• ISBN13: 9780521276559
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 9.7"