33867X1 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1994. 270 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. A selection of some of the finest British watercolors from the National Collection.This catalog accompanied an exhibition of watercolors from The National Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A selection of one hundred works are discussed and illustrated, including paintings by Turner, Girtin and Cotman, as well as examples from the twentieth century. In a study of paintings spanning some two hundred years, Lewis Johnson explores the familiar and the unfamiliar in one of the most apparently tradition-governed practices of painting. His analysis of traditional criticism, its political and cultural context and the questions raised by the paintings themselves makes this study a bold and timely contribution to the reappraisal of the history and theory of art in Britain. ISBN: 0521444888 $99.45USD
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