As one of the leading critical voices on art of the postwar years, polymath Lawrence Gowing (1918\u20131991) combined a passion for close visual involvement with formidable literary skills. Edited by art historian Sarah Whitfield, four decades of Gowing\u2019s writing are brought together for the first time in this volume, covering subjects from the Old Masters to Francis Bacon and Howard Hodgkin.<\/p>\n
Having first gained success as a painter, Gowing’s 1952 monograph on Vermeer brought him early recognition as a writer with the ability to combine aesthetic experience with a meticulous historical perspective.<\/p>\n
Gowing\u2019s foremost commitment was to the pioneering painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, notably Paul C\u00e9zanne and Henri Matisse. The exhibitions he curated at the Tate and Museum of Modern Art famously helped to mould and reshape public perceptions. Characterised by a desire to instruct and encourage, his writing reflects a highly successful career as a curator and teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Four decades of writings by Lawrence Gowing, one of the leading critical voices on art in the postwar years, covering subjects from the Old Masters to Francis Bacon and Howard Hodgkin.
Preface \u00b7 sarah whitfield 9
\nWriters on Art
\nMonument of Criticism 27
\nMr Berenson\u2019s Venice 29
\nBerenson 33
\nMind the Paintwork 37
\nHistory and Faith 42
\nSpellbinder 47
\nArt Before 1900
\nMantegna 55
\nBrueghel\u2019s World 61
\nThe Solemnity of Martyrs 85
\nRoman Paroxysm 88
\nPrivacy and Pride 93
\nAn Artist in His Studio 97
\nForger Versus Critic 106
\nHogarth in Print: The Tyranny of Taste 113
\nHogarth Revisited 128
\nFrancisco Goya 144
\nThe Unfathomable Goya 153
\nTurner: Imagination and Reality 157
\nTurner\u2019s Pictures of Nothing 197
\nConfidence and Conscience in Two Centuries of Art 203
\nDaumier at the Tate 215
\nImpressionism and Beyond
\nThe Great Transformation 221
\nThe Logic of Organised Sensations 234
\nThe Early Work of C\u00e9zanne 274
\nRenoir\u2019s Sentiment and Sense 301
\nMatisse: The Harmony of Light 317
\nHenri Matisse: Harmony in Red 352
\nTeaching by Example 360
\nIn the Monkey Cage 363
\nLiving in the Present 366
\nObjects-Lessons in Object-Love 370
\nCubist 375
\nPaint in America 378
\nBritish Painting
\nA Brilliant Game of Tip and Run 387
\nRemembering Coldstream 390
\nPositioning in Representation 406
\nFrancis Bacon: The Human Presence 417
\nHoward Hodgkin 440
\nThe New Tate 447
\nIndex of Names 455<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36191,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36190","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-lawrence-gowing","8":"author-edited-by-sarah-whitfield","9":"publisher-ridinghouse","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n