My Own Places

by Kerr, Don

• ISBN13: 9781552381700
• ISBN10: 1552381706
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-23
• Publisher: Univ of Calgary Pr

Summary

Incorporating colour photographs, Constable's own letters, and descriptions of the painter from other historical material, Kerr constructs a close reading of landscape painting that engages literary imagination with visual art, for a unique portrait of this world-famous artist.

Table of Contents

Prologue : Constable in my town
Jig saw Constable	p. 1
On the day John Constable came to town	p. 2
The Constable revolution	p. 7
Abolition	p. 9
The man who stayed home	p. 10
Apprenticeship with memory	p. 11
The art of seeing nature	p. 13
It is forever summer	p. 14
John and Maria	p. 19
Views from his father's house, 1815	p. 23
Stratford Mill, 1820, the landscape of true marriage	p. 24
A kingdom of my own	p. 27
Salisbury Cathedral from the meadows	p. 30
Constable in Liverpool	p. 32
In the dark now	p. 34
The Claudes! The Claudes!	p. 39
Jacob von Ruysdael	p. 43
Wheatfields, Von Ruysdael, 1670	p. 44
Delacroix in England, 1825	p. 45
Turner	p. 47
Rural rides	p. 52
Providence by hind-sight	p. 53
Suffolk lore	p. 54
South folk strike back	p. 55
The vegetable kingdom	p. 56
Mr. Gilpin on nature, 1809	p. 58
In Constable's country, 1906	p. 60
Cornish Constable country, 1932	p. 61
Constable revisited, 1984	p. 62
B and b	p. 64
Some days I have little to say	p. 65
Boat building, 1815-1987	p. 67
Constable's letters coming to life	p. 68
If you're not in the picture	p. 73
Ploughing scene in Suffolk	p. 75
Plein air	p. 81
Medium's message	p. 82
Sleight of landscape	p. 83
The rules for art	p. 84
Landscape has a house and road	p. 85
No God but history	p. 86
Chromatics	p. 87
Gilpin on nature, 2	p. 89
Under attack	p. 93
Ruskin on Constable	p. 95
Foregrounding	p. 97
Leaping hare	p. 98
Auerbach	p. 99
I've a nice collection of paintins, sir	p. 100
Constable at Maxims - sour	p. 102
Constable at Maxims - sweet	p. 104
Epilogue : the man who fell from sight	p. 109
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