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In Search of a Masterpiece Christopher Lloyd

In Search of a Masterpiece By Christopher Lloyd

In Search of a Masterpiece by Christopher Lloyd


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Identifies over 265 painting masterpieces in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from the National Gallery to The Burrell Collection in Glasgow some acknowledged greats, others surprising, quirky and richly rewarding.

In Search of a Masterpiece Summary

In Search of a Masterpiece: An Art Lover's Guide to Great Britain and Ireland by Christopher Lloyd

If you find yourself in Hull, Cork or Dundee, what paintings should you go and look at? Many masterpieces are waiting for you around the British Isles, sometimes neglected, in our galleries and museums. Here, broadcaster, critic and President of the National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS), Christopher Lloyd, identifies over 265 masterpieces in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales - from the National Gallery to The Burrell Collection in Glasgow - some acknowledged greats, others surprising, quirky and richly rewarding. All the paintings are the personal selection of Lloyd who has come across and enjoyed or admired them in public collections during the course of his career. His purpose throughout is to encourage others to visit the same places and experience the same pleasures. For tourists, this book offers a treasure trail; for the art lover, a vade mecum and companion - in all an expert guide to the highlights of British collections - our country's galleries have found their Pevsner!

In Search of a Masterpiece Reviews

'Enthusiasm, charm, wit, elegant style and an unerring eye ... 'In Search of a Masterpiece' is, itself, a very quiet, very British masterpiece' - Judith Flanders, Daily Telegraph
'A tremendously good idea, very well done ... a masterpiece of concision' - Times Literary Supplement
'This valuable guide could end up paying for itself, as you discover essential works in almost every major town or city' - Artists & Illustrators
'His comments are dry and pithy, his one-liners are sharp ... this is an achievement few could match ... Dr Lloyd's selections will delight, and will send the reader back, refreshed, to our great national and regional collections' - Country Life
'An inspiring selection ... Beautifully crafted, unobtrusively erudite, generously detailed without ever losing sight of the picture itself, these essays are models of art-historical writing and a sustained pleasure to read' - The Art Newspaper
'Exactly the companion you would wish to take with you on a museum crawl: knowledgeable, urbane and discreetly impatient with dense art-historical lingo' - Kathryn Hughes, Guardian

About Christopher Lloyd

Christopher Lloyd worked in the Department of Western Art of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1968 to 1988, combining curatorial duties with teaching. During that time he was appointed by Harvard University to a Fellowship at Villa I Tatti in Florence and was Visiting Research Curator of Early Italian Painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was appointed Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures in the British Royal Collection in 1988 and retired from that post in 2005. He is now engaged in writing and organizing exhibitions on a wide variety of subjects. His publications include monographs on painters, catalogues of museum collections and surveys of the Royal Collection, as well as In Search of a Masterpiece: An Art Lover's Guide to Great Britain and Ireland, Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels and Paul Cezanne: Drawings and Watercolours, all published by Thames & Hudson.

Table of Contents

Introduction * PART1: SETTING OUT London * PART 2: ON THE ROAD The South-East * The South-West * The East Midlands * The West Midland * East Anglia * The North-East * The North-West * PART 3: SCOTLAND * PART 4: WALES * PART 5: IRELAND * Resources

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GOR004116976
9780500238844
0500238847
In Search of a Masterpiece: An Art Lover's Guide to Great Britain and Ireland by Christopher Lloyd
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
2011-04-01
496
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