The Tradition
A New History of Welsh Art
Published on 31. March 2016
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-910409-62-6 (ISBN)
Description
Peter Lord surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century in this new, single-volume history. Written for everyone with an interest in the art and history of Wales, the volume illustrates some 400 landscapes and portrait paintings, prints and sculptures. The author describes both how the work emerged from its Welsh historical context and was related to the art of other cultures. Revealing the many discoveries made since the first publication of The Visual Culture of Wales series in 1998, The Tradition is the only study now in print that encompasses the whole field of Welsh visual art. It is published with the support of the National Museum of Wales, The Paul Mellon Foundation, Swansea University and the Welsh Books Council.
Reviews / Votes
"Renowned for his work on artisan and industrial paintings from Wales, particularly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Lord s arts criticism seems to sit comfortably alongside contemporaries such as Catherine Belsey and John Berger. Like them, he is interested in rethinking not only visual and cultural identities but also what constitutes art and from whose perspective." New Welsh Review""More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
Illustrations
400
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 270 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-910409-62-6 (9781910409626)
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07/2023
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Person
Peter Lord was born in Exeter in 1948, and now lives near Aberystwyth. Initially, he worked as a sculptor, designing several large scale public works, notably the Hywel Dda Memorial at Whitland. However, in 1986 he decided to concentrate on writing about visual culture, and since then has published some twelve studies on various aspects of the subject. These include the three volumes of The Visual Culture of Wales (University of Wales Press, 1998-2003), regarded as the standard work on the subject. In 1999 he wrote and presented a seven-part series about Welsh visual culture, The Big Picture, for BBC Wales, and he continues to interpret the subject on television and radio. He has lectured on Welsh art in Germany and the United States, where he was a visiting scholar at the British Art Center at Yale.