| More about Carl Laubin Paintings The book follows the development of Laubin's work from his earliest Realist landscape painting influenced by nineteenth-century French painting, to his later and more elaborate architectural compositions based on the buildings of Wren, Hawksmoor, Cockerell and Ledoux. In particular it explores the artist's use of what is known as capriccio, a type of composition which combines features of imaginary and real architecture in a picturesque or dramatic setting. Laubin's claim that, from childhood, painting 'allowed (him) to be in the world as (he) liked it to be', pointing to the more imaginary and idealised elements of the world as it is depicted in his art, suggests at least one reason why he was so attracted to this type of composition. About the authors John Russell Taylor has been art critic for the Times since 1978. In the 1960s he was film critic for the Times and during the 1970s, while he was professor in the Cinema Division of the Universtiy of Southern California, Los Angeles, he was the paper's American cultural correspondent. He has also written some sixty books on art, film, theatre and cultural history, including biocritical studies on Bill Jacklin, Cyril Mann, Edward Wolfe, Bernard Meninsky, Peter Coker, Ricardo Cinalli and Zsuzi Roboz, and several books on Monet and the Impressionists.David Watkin is an internationally recognised writer and historian whose many books include John Simpson: The Queen's Gallery Buckingham Palace and Other Works (with Richard John; 2002); The Architect King: George III and the Culture of Enlightenment (2004); A History of Western Architecture (4th Ed., 2005); and Radical Classicism: The Architecture of Quinlan Terry (2006). He is professor of the history of architecture at the Universtiy of Cambridge, where he is head of the Department of History of Art. This book is published in association with Plus One Gallery, the leading dealer in Photorealist art. |