An Indolent and Blundering Art?

Download or read book An Indolent and Blundering Art? written by Emma Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, Chambers explores English etching changed that radically during the nineteenth century. This book looks into the freedom and directness of the etching process became a key plank in a sustained attempt to raise the status of etching in Britain spearheaded by artists such as Francis Seymour Haden and James McNeill Whistler and members of the Etching Club. An Indolent and Blundering Art? Opens with a description of the use of language and art criticism to redefine etching