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The E-BNR aims to build a comprehensive & unique cross-artform guide to
the British neo-Romantic tradition,
from 1880 to the present day.
While the British Romantics of 1789-1824 have spawned a vast industry of
publishers, conferences & tourism, the later neo-Romantic traditions
remain largely neglected. The E-BNR is aimed at bringing this hidden
tradition to light.
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WHAT IS NEO-ROMANTICISM ?
Neo-Romantic artists have drawn their inspiration
from artists of the age of Romanticism or earlier.
Characteristic themes in their work include a
mystical approach to the British landscape...
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ENTRY: Whistler, Laurence
Alan Charles Laurence Whistler, C.B.E. (b. January 21, 1912 - d. December 19, 2000)
was a British poet and glass artist.
He schooled at Stowe, then went up to Balliol College, Oxford.
His first book of poems was inspired by Spenser, Keats and Shelley.
He devoted himself to glass engraving, on goblets and bowls
blown to his own designs, creating visionary and mysterious landscapes in glass.
He was inspired by 18th-century glass-engravers but raised the craft to new heights,
and his works can be viewed from multiple angles.
In his later career he worked on large-scale panels and windows in churches and private houses,
including the whole of St Nicholas at Moreton in Dorset.
In his later years his imagination verged on the mystical, and was deeply
engaged with the idea of the English landscape. He wrote...
"Rhyming and ambiguity can appear anywhere, but the best examples are to be
seen in mountains and high hills ... sometimes the answering could almost make one
laugh ... and the meaning of the whole world would be revealed as silent music."
Five books of his glass were published after 1952. he was one of the founders of the
Guild of Glass Engravers.
He published a biography of his brother Rex Whistler, The Laughter and the Urn (1985)
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