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The Art of G.F. Watts

Nicholas Tromans

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English
Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
23 February 2017
. By this time, Watts had acquired a country home in Surrey - Limnerslease - around which he and his second wife, the designer Mary Watts, built a type of utopian settlement, which has recently been restored and opened to the public as Watts Gallery - Artists' Village. By the end of his life Watts was a national figure, an inspirational artist who had found a meaningful role for art as a catalyst for social change and community integration.
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Imprint:   Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 170mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   431g
ISBN:   9781911300076
ISBN 10:   1911300075
Pages:   112
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nicholas Tromans is curator at Watts Gallery. He has published widely on nineteenth-century British art, including the acclaimed Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum.

Reviews for The Art of G.F. Watts

Watts's pictures ... contain the half-stifled secrets that their era tried to suppress ... disturbingly fresh. * The Times * Tromans ... offers a frank, fair and ultimately endearing overview of Watts' curious career and the complexities of his personality whilst conjuring a lively picture of the cultural, social and political climate. * Art Quarterly *


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