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SCOTTISH ART
All these factors have formed the character of Scottish art, but at the same time it is rich in distinctive personalities and individual genius. Professor Murdo Macdonald brings these men and women vividly to life without losing sight of the wider panorama. His book is particularly opportune at a time when the issue and nature of Scottish identity have come to the foreground. After several years as art critic for The Scotsman, Murdo Macdonald held academic posts in Glasgow and Edinburgh and in 1997 became Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee. ISBN 0-500-20333-4 · 5 7/8" x 8 1/4" · 183 illustrations, 55 in color · 224 pages · ART
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What are the threads that bind Scottish Art into a single tradition? Certain
stylistic features, such as the heritage of Celtic design with its emphasis
on intricate pattern, recur throughout the centuries, most clearly, perhaps,
in Mackintosh's Art Nouveau. At a deeper level, Scottish artists have
continually returned to certain themes and ideas, or aspects of landscape
and history: the presence of the sea and the rocky Scottish coastline,
the hardships of the people, incidents from their history, and portraits
of those who have formed Scottish culture. A close connection with France
has also been surprisingly persistent, from medieval times to the present.