Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness
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Joseph Wright’s candlelit scenes can look like celebrations of discovery. Matthew Craske asks readers to look again, exploring the loneliness, mortality and psychological darkness that complicate those brilliant effects of light. His interpretation connects the artist’s subjects with the emotional and cultural concerns of eighteenth-century Britain.
Alongside the celebrated illuminated interiors, the discussion considers solitude, age, ruins and the passage of time. This gives Wright’s darkness a meaning beyond technical virtuosity: light can disclose uncertainty as readily as knowledge. Published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, this scholarly illustrated study is an especially strong choice for readers interested in atmospheric historical painting, the relationship between biography and interpretation, and the quieter anxieties that can inhabit an apparently rational world.
Book Details
- Author / editor: Matthew Craske
- Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781913107123
- Publication date: 24/11/2020
- Language: English
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