Cader Idris and the Artists

Description

Cader Idris, one of the highest mountains in southern Eryri (Snowdonia) Wales, rich in mythological and historical associations. Cader Idris has always held a strong attraction to visual artists, despite this, Cader Idris and the Artists is the first book to discuss the artistic depiction of the mountain, from the 1760sto the present day. From Richard Wilson (1714-1782), to J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), Cornelius Varley (1781-1873), John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), Kyffin Williams (1918-2006) and Bedwyr Williams’s 2016 futuristic video presentations of the mountain, Green guides the reader to view this famous mountain in many different ways, from different viewpoints and from different perspectives. Through artists’ works, the reader is invited to trace the changing styles and modes of visual artists from the late eighteenth century to the present day, from classicism to Romanticism, and on to modernism, abstraction and conceptualism. Green shows us how, throughout the last 300 years, the mountain has stood tall, overlooking the ever-changing world, and remained a reliable source of artistic inspiration.