| 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. |
| Term | Artists |
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