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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
LS/759.2 Oversize
Title
Joseph Wright of Derby: painter of darkness.
Date
2020
Publication Date
2020
Author
Craske, Matthew
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
ISBN
9781913107123
Abstract
A revelatory study of one of the 18th century's greatest artists, Matthew Craske's 'Joseph Wright of Derby' places the artist in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment. Though conventionally known as a 'painter of light', Wright returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of innocence, isolation and tragedy. Craske adopts a fresh approach to Wright, which takes seriously contemporary reports of his melancholia and nervous disposition, and goes on to question accepted understandings of the artist.
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Artists
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Wright; Joseph (1734-1797); Artist, also known as Wright of Derby.
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Derby
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