Walter Sickert

by Corbett, David Peters; Sickert, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780691088235
• ISBN10: 0691088233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was a leading figure in the development of British painting and the graphic arts. Influenced by Whistler and Degas early in his career, by 1914 he was respected as a major figure within the Camden Town Group and a renowned painter in his own right. Yet Sickert's life and art were never stable, and he was never complacent. His work varies strikingly--from a strongly worked paint surface laden with impasto to the thinnest and sparest application; from an overtly modern set of subjects to apparently nostalgic images. But whatever form his art took, Sickert always remained what he was so often called in the 1910s: "a painter's painter."This study examines the dynamism of Sickert's work from his earliest career at the Slade School of Art to his last works. It argues for Sickert as a major figure in the history of attempts to record modern life and to develop a distinctly modern mode of painting.

Author Biography

David Peters Corbett is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	6	(1)
Introduction	7	(4)
Realism and Symbolism	11	(15)
The Painter of Modern Life	26	(14)
Modernists and After	40	(14)
Tradition and Innovation	54	(16)
Conclusion: Sickert and His Reputation	70	(4)
Chronology	74	(2)
Notes	76	(3)
Select Bibliography	79	(1)
Index	80