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John William Godward : The Eclipse of Classicism by Vern G. Swanson (1997, Hardcover)

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John William Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAntique Collectors' Club

ISBN-101851492704

ISBN-139781851492701

eBay Product ID (ePID)374655

Product Key Features

Book TitleJohn William Godward : the Eclipse of Classicism

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory / General

Publication Year1997

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorVern G. Swanson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight62.4 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN99-491001

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal759.2

SynopsisJohn William Godward was a passionate and extremely accomplished practitioner of the 19th century Graeco-Roman Classic style. Swanson's book describes an enigmatic, tormented personality and confirms Godward's intense, if narrow, genius., Plucked from oblivion, Godward serves as the last best example of 19th century Greco-Roman Classicism. Of a reclusive nature and painting in a style completely out-of-date with post-war Europe, this genius was and remained obscure. Godward's brilliance, with the recent revival of interest in his fallow Classicists, Alma-Tadema and Lord Leighton, is only now coming to light. Godward's art sought to portray peace, feminine beauty and ideal perfection in an age careening headlong into atrocity. He did so by marvelously painted and composed pictures of beautiful women in halycon classical environments. He was a niche painter whose subject, while arresting, was narrow. However, only Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was better at painting this genre of 'patrician women on marble benches'. Melancholia, fed by ill health and increasing artistic criticism overwhelmed his fantasy world of serenity and he died by his own hand.