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POMEGRANATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Box 808022 • Petaluma, CA 94975‐8022 Tel: 800‐227‐1428 • Fax: 800‐848‐4372 • www.pomegranate.com • [email protected]
COMING FROM POMEGRANATE IN SEPTEMBER 2009
The Paintings of John Duncan, A Scottish Symbolist
John Kemplay
In this updated edition of John Kemplay’s pioneering monograph, the struggles and achievement of Scottish painter John Duncan (1866–1945) reveal how an artist working outside the mainstream played a key role in the Celtic revival. As Duncan moved from painting scenes of Arthurian drama to ancient Celtic myths and legends, he created classical works of art unlike any others in early-twentieth-century Scotland. Excerpts from diaries and letters reveal a painstaking technician whose sympathies with the Symbolist movement, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and Byzantine muralists led him to produce fanciful yet restrained compositions in which tempera—his preferred medium—acquired an exquisite density of color and smoothness of surface. Dozens of color plates illustrate the breadth of John Duncan’s oeuvre, while author John Kemplay outlines Duncan’s technical, intellectual, and spiritual development as an artist. About the Author Born and educated in London, John Kemplay studied British art at the Tate Gallery and later moved to Edinburgh, where he now specializes in the Scottish art of the early twentieth century. He has curated exhibitions at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre and the Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh. Kemplay is the author of The Two Companions (Crowhurst, 1991), a study of the Scottish artists Eric Robertson and Cecile Walton.
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POMEGRANATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Box 808022 • Petaluma, CA 94975‐8022 Tel: 800‐227‐1428 • Fax: 800‐848‐4372 • www.pomegranate.com • [email protected]
Sample pages from The Paintings of John Duncan, A Scottish Symbolist
The Paintings of John Duncan, A Scottish Symbolist
John Kemplay ISBN: 978-0-7649-5159-6
Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket 128 pages, 11 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches
50 full-color illustrations, 2 duotone reproductions Includes Index
$29.95 US ($37.95 CAN) Catalog No. A177
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