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Produced in a pocket-sized, jacketed-paperback format, Phaidon's miniature editions make ideal gifts and desirable possessions. Each book features a wealth of finely reproduced colour images.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Don't be put off by the small size - this is a wonderful book and for a low price gives you an absorbing introduction to this exceptional artist.
You are taken through the paintings by being shown, for many of them, a close up of part of a painting, then another part, then a reproduction of the whole painting, and then another detail often accompanied by a poem that gives the background to the scene. It is happily like walking through a gallery looking up close, then standing back, then reading the note next to the painting. The whole journey is wonderfully well done for 160 pages. At the back the book describes the stories from myth and literature that Waterhouse took as his subjects for the paintings. And there is a list of the paintings with details of their locations in the real world.
The quality of the reproductions, the colour, the sharpness, is exceptionally good.
Above all the pictures are beautiful, breathtaking, and moving. These paintings often touch a deep chord in the viewer about what it is to be human, and the moments of sadness, wonder, joy, grief, and longing that we all have. Waterhouse's had an extraordinarily accomplished technique and used it wonderfully.
To have these paintings in such a portably sized book is great. Well done and many thanks to Phaidon publishers and the unnamed person(s)that put this book together!
(And if you are wondering the cover painting is, it is Hylas and the Nymphs which is at Manchester City Art Gallery.)
You are taken through the paintings by being shown, for many of them, a close up of part of a painting, then another part, then a reproduction of the whole painting, and then another detail often accompanied by a poem that gives the background to the scene. It is happily like walking through a gallery looking up close, then standing back, then reading the note next to the painting. The whole journey is wonderfully well done for 160 pages. At the back the book describes the stories from myth and literature that Waterhouse took as his subjects for the paintings. And there is a list of the paintings with details of their locations in the real world.
The quality of the reproductions, the colour, the sharpness, is exceptionally good.
Above all the pictures are beautiful, breathtaking, and moving. These paintings often touch a deep chord in the viewer about what it is to be human, and the moments of sadness, wonder, joy, grief, and longing that we all have. Waterhouse's had an extraordinarily accomplished technique and used it wonderfully.
To have these paintings in such a portably sized book is great. Well done and many thanks to Phaidon publishers and the unnamed person(s)that put this book together!
(And if you are wondering the cover painting is, it is Hylas and the Nymphs which is at Manchester City Art Gallery.)
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This little book shows Waterhouse's paintings with the poetry and passages that they are based on. It is an excellent start to finding out more about this superb artist.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A gorgeous little book with some of waterhouse's enthralling paintings interspersed with passages from poems or literature that inspired the pictures. I found the 'classical and literary sources' section interesting and enlightening as it explains who the characters are . I am fascinated by the models and like to look for the same model in the different pictures, so having them all in one little book is ideal.
Highly recommended .
Highly recommended .
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Beautiful
A glorious little book full of beautiful prints and their corresponding text. Perfect pocket-sized book and a brilliant toll for research.
Published 20 months ago by Nim
A little pre raphaelite gem
I purchased this little book a while ago and it is lovely book to have with alot of Waterhouses finest paintings with some rather good associated prose as well, also it would a... Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2009 by Mr. P. J. Walker
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