Scottish Art and Design: 5,000 Years

by Wendy Kaplan, John C. Barrett, Elizabeth Cumming

Scottish Art and Design explores its subject in authoritative, illustrated essays by eleven contributors, all experts in their fields. Among the more important aspects discussed are: Scottish art and design's earliest origins, from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1000; the importance of the relationship between art and the Church before the Reformation, particularly the role of the Church as patron; the art of the book, both in fine manuscript illumination and in exquisite hand-tooled bindings; the eighteenth-century interior; industrial design from 1700 to the present day, where Scotland's contribution, notably in engineering, has been of paramount importance; the interaction of art and literature, especially the role of Sir Walter Scott in establishing a Scottish ideal; the significance of the new artistic directions in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the turn of the century, including Scottish Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Movement; and Scottish modernism.

The first book to present a comprehensive survey of the Scottish achievement in the arts through the centuries, Scottish Art and Design offers a fascinating insight into a hitherto neglected subject.

Art and design, 3000 BC-AD 1000 / John C. Barrett -- Art and the church before the Reformation / John Higgitt -- In search of Scottish art : native traditions and foreign influences / David H. Caldwell -- Scotland's artistics links with Europe / James Holloway -- Scottish design and the art of the book, 1500-1800 / John Morris -- The eighteenth-century interior in Scotland / Ian Gow -- Industrial design in Scotland, 1700-1990 / John Hume -- Sir Walter Scott and nineteenth-century painting in Scotland / Lindsay Errington -- How many swallows make a summer? : art and design in Glasgow in 1900 / Roger Billcliffe -- 'A gleam of Renaissance hope' : Edinburgh at the turn of the century / Elizabeth Cumming -- Scottish modernism and Scottish identity / Tom Normand

Genres: Art

210 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1991