Treasure Island
British Art from Holbein to Hockney
October 5, 2012 – January 20, 2013The catalogue
The catalogue
In addition to the main essay by Richard Humphreys, the essays by Tim Blanning and Kevin Jackson analyse the artistic, historical and literary dimensions of a history that is extremely rich in visual terms though perhaps unfamiliar in its details to audiences in Spain. Furthermore, each of the sections of the catalogue – and of the exhibition – includes a selection of texts (some of which have never before been published in Spanish translation) that offer the reader a fuller sense of the historical and cultural context of the works of art on display. These texts by artists, essayists, historians and literary writers are diverse in tone and content: legal provisions from Parliament or the Crown, fragments from Peacham, Richardson, Addison, Pope, Hume, Shaftesbury, Turner, Constable and Cozens; texts by Whistler, Ruskin, Morris, Fry, Lewis, Read, Stokes and Alloway. The catalogue concludes with a brief bibliography intended as a guide for those who are interested in delving further into those places of British art that an exhibition and its accompanying catalogue can only explore partially.
