Paradise Lost: Paintings of English Country Life and Landscape, 1850–1914

by Christopher Wood

Paradise Paintings of English Country Life and Landscape, 1850-1914 Wood, Christopher

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published November 3, 1988

About the author

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Christopher Wood was Britain's leading writer and broadcaster on the subject of Victorian art. For thirteen years he worked for the London auction house Christie's, becoming director of nineteenth-century paintings.

Reviews

[Liberty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Concisely explaining the difference between the reality of rural poverty and the rose-tinted depiction of it by Victorian painters creating works for the living rooms of middle-class, city dwellers imagining a pastoral idyll.