Walter Sickert
David Peters Corbett

Paper | 2001 | This edition is out of print | ISBN13: 978-0-691-08823-5
80 pp. | 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 | 54 color illus., 2 halftones

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was a leading figure in the development of British painting and the graphic arts. Influenced by Whistler and Degas early in his career, by 1914 he was respected as a major figure within the Camden Town Group and a renowned painter in his own right. Yet Sickert's life and art were never stable, and he was never complacent. His work varies strikingly--from a strongly worked paint surface laden with impasto to the thinnest and sparest application; from an overtly modern set of subjects to apparently nostalgic images. But whatever form his art took, Sickert always remained what he was so often called in the 1910s: "a painter's painter."

This study examines the dynamism of Sickert's work from his earliest career at the Slade School of Art to his last works. It argues for Sickert as a major figure in the history of attempts to record modern life and to develop a distinctly modern mode of painting.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements 6
Introduction 7
Chapter 1. Realism and Symbolism 11
Chapter 2. The Painter of Modern Life 26
Chapter 3. Modernists and After 40
Chapter 4. Tradition and Innovation 54
Conclusion: Sickert and His Reputation 70
Chronology 74
Notes 76
Select Bibliography 79
Index 80

Series:

• British Artists

Subject Area:

• Art and Architecture

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