Wright of Derby: From the Shadows - Softcover

Riding, Christine; King, Jon

 
9781857097467: Wright of Derby: From the Shadows
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1857097467 ISBN 13: 9781857097467
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2025

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A focus on Wright of Derby’s hugely atmospheric ‘candlelight’ paintings, which have become his most popular works.

Renowned for his depictions of dramatic contrasts between darkness and light, Joseph Wright of Derby created a significant series of paintings ‘by candlelight’ between 1765 and 1773. Centred around masterpieces including An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump from the National Gallery and A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery from Derby Museum and Art Gallery, this publication explores the social and artistic context of these pictures, foregrounding them as outstanding examples of European painting.

The candlelight scenes offer a wealth of insights into Wright’s own thinking as well as contemporary preoccupations during the ‘Age of Enlightenment’, reflecting the artist’s concerns with death, melancholy, scientific progress and scepticism. The publication also discusses aesthetic debates concerning the sublime, as well as childhood wonder, curiosity and the loss of innocence. In addition to paintings and mezzotints, it considers related objects, such as contemporary scientific instruments.

Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press

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Christine Riding and Jon King

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1857097467
ISBN 13 
9781857097467
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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