Relationships with Pictures

by Peter Lord

Overview

Beneath the surface of pictures lie the extensive networks of relationships and associations that tie us to them, sometimes in extraordinary ways. The moments at which we come to understand something of ourselves and our place in the world are often anchored in images—literary, musical, and visual. Through 15 pictures, Peter Lord describes the evolution of his own sense of self, in childhood just after the Second World War, at art college in the 1960s, through the tension between incomers and local people in Wales in the 1970s and 80s, and finally through his exploration of the place they have had in the lives of the artists who created them, their patrons and publics. Writing about the meaning of pictures in their social and political context, Peter Lord was centrally involved in the establishment of the field in Wales in the 1980s, when the prevailing conventional wisdom regarded the nation as being largely devoid of a visual culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908946690
Publisher:	Parthian Books
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Peter Lord is a writer who has published 12 studies on various aspects of the subject of visual culture, including the three volumes of The Visual Culture of Wales, regarded as the standard work on the subject. He wrote and presented a seven-part series about Welsh visual culture, The Big Picture, for BBC Wales and was a visiting scholar at the British Art Center at Yale.

Table of Contents

The Pictures 9

Foreword 25

1 A Portrait of Sarah Drewer 29

2 The Mesopotamia Studio 39

3 Self-portrait with Enamelled Jug 53

4 The Little Girl on the Beach 67

5 Twm Penllwynbedw 77

6 Chwalfa 93

7 Three Artisan Paintings:

i The Surgeon Apothecary 109

ii Huw Griffith of Bodwrdda 117

iii The Young Physician 135

8 L.S. Lowry drawing the Stockport Viaduct 167

9 A Portrait of Jack Jones 177

10 Courting 189

11 On the Coal Tips 209

12 Breton Woman 223

13 Self-portrait of Edward Owen, Penrhos 241

14 Their Burden 259

15 The Canopy of Honour 279

Endnotes 294

Index 308

Editorial Reviews

"In the way of both good criticism and biography Relationships with Pictures roams richly across culture wider than painting."  —Wales Arts Review

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