This book considers and translates the paintings and etchings of John Crome (17681821), founder of the Norwich School of Artists, through and into other 'languages' or media, verbal and pictorial.
The word 'translation' is not used lightly. This is not an anthology of creative pieces by a variety of artists from different media 'inspired by' or 'expressing a kinship with' Cromes paintings. Instead, these are translations in the sense of transformations into new languages designed both to incorporate the perceptual and existential responses of the 'translator' to examples of Cromes work and to project those works into possible cross-medial futures. The book is as much about 'looking' across media, as about John Crome.
Contributions and extracts from:
Georg Simmel | John Berger | Richard Mabey | Gerry Barnes | Tom Williamson | Virginia Woolf | Oliver Rackham | Neil MacMaster | Jacques Rancičre | Malcolm Andrews | Elizabeth Helsinger | Edmund Bartell | Frances Milton Trollope | Rose Miller | Nick Stone | John Craske | Richard Long | Tacita Dean | Tor Falcon | Anya Gallaccio | Chloe Steele | Katie Spragg | Daniel & Clara | Tim Dee | Esther Morgan | George Szirtes | Anna Reckin | Edward Parnell | Kit Young | Mark Edwards | Lawrence Sail | Jacques Nimki | Simon Carter
List of Figures
7
The Editors
11
Acknowledgements
13
Note on the Text
17
List of Contributors
19
John Crome (1768
1821): A Biographical Sketch
- Esther Morgan: The Drawing Master
27
- Andrew Moore: John Crome
28
Introduction: Andrew Moore & Clive Scott
33
Section 1 Writing the Visual
- Andrew Moore: The Art of Cromes Landscape:
Breath must be attended to
47
- Clive Scott: The Art of Translation: Projecting Crome
61
Section 2 Imagining the Landscape
- Georg Simmel
77
- John Berger
79
- Richard Mabey
81
- Gerry Barnes & Tom Williamson
83
- Virginia Woolf
85
- Oliver Rackham
87
- Neil MacMaster
89
- Jacques Rancičre
91
- Malcolm Andrews
93
- Elizabeth Helsinger
95
- Edmund Bartell
97
- Frances Milton Trollope
99
Section 3: Optically Re-Situating Crome
- Clive Scott: The Complexities of Looking
103
- Rose Miller: A Conservators View
117
- Nick Stone: A Sense of Place
123
Section 4 Inhabiting the Land
- John Craske
129
- Richard Long
135
- Tacita Dean
141
- Tor Falcon
145
- Anya Gallaccio
151
- Chloe Steele
157
- Katie Spragg
161
- Daniel & Clara
167
Section 5
- Revisualizing the Visual
Tim Dee
175
- Esther Morgan
183
- George Szirtes
193
- Anna Reckin
199
- Edward Parnell
207
- Kit Young
213
- Mark Edwards
221
- Lawrence Sail
227
- Jacques Nimki
233
- Simon Carter
237
Select Bibliography
245
Andrew Moore, Ph.D., FSA, has enjoyed a long association with the work of John Crome through his former position as Keeper of Art, based at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, home to the national collection of works by Crome and the Norwich School of Painters.
Clive Scott is Professor Emeritus of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and an Emeritus Fellow of the British Academy. He specializes in the theory and practice of literary translation.
