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A biographical study of the Victorian church artist Charles Eamer Kempe and his considerable influence on church decoration worldwide.
Kempe offers a radical revaluation of the life, work and reputation of Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907), one of the most remarkable and influential figures in late Victorian and Edwardian church art. Kempe's name became synonymous with a distinctive style of stained glass, furnishing and decoration deriving from late mediaeval and early Renaissance models. To this day, his hand can be seen in churches and cathedrals worldwide. Drawing on newly available archive material, Adrian Barlow evaluates Kempe's achievement in creating a Studio or School of artists and craftsmen who interpreted his designs and remained fiercely loyal to his aesthetic and religious ideals. He assesses his legacy and reputation today, as well as exploring his networks of patrons and influence, which stretched from the Royal Family and the Church of England hierarchy to the literary and artistic beau monde. These networks intersected at Kempe's stunning Sussex country house, Old Place, his 'Palace of Art'. Created to embody his ideals of beauty and history, it holds the key to understanding his contradictory personality, his public and private faces. This book will appeal to everyone interested in Victorian art in general and stained glass in particular. Detailed and wide-ranging, Kempe tells a compelling story.
Kempe offers a radical revaluation of the life, work and reputation of Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907), one of the most remarkable and influential figures in late Victorian and Edwardian church art. Kempe's name became synonymous with a distinctive style of stained glass, furnishing and decoration deriving from late mediaeval and early Renaissance models. To this day, his hand can be seen in churches and cathedrals worldwide. Drawing on newly available archive material, Adrian Barlow evaluates Kempe's achievement in creating a Studio or School of artists and craftsmen who interpreted his designs and remained fiercely loyal to his aesthetic and religious ideals. He assesses his legacy and reputation today, as well as exploring his networks of patrons and influence, which stretched from the Royal Family and the Church of England hierarchy to the literary and artistic beau monde. These networks intersected at Kempe's stunning Sussex country house, Old Place, his 'Palace of Art'. Created to embody his ideals of beauty and history, it holds the key to understanding his contradictory personality, his public and private faces. This book will appeal to everyone interested in Victorian art in general and stained glass in particular. Detailed and wide-ranging, Kempe tells a compelling story.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 336
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Lutterworth Press
Publication Date:
30 August 2018
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9780718894634
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
ART / History / General, History of art
Forget what you knew, or thought you knew, about Kempe! Adrian Barlow's reexamination of the life, art and work of Charles Eamer Kempe and his circle is a masterful exercise in biography and art history.
— Dr Jasmine Allen, Curator, The Stained Glass Museum, Ely
This is a timely and long-awaited study of the work of C.E. Kempe and his successor company, not only in stained glass but within a wider context of later 19th and early 20th century design and the Arts and Crafts movement. Its illustrations draw attention to the consistently high quality of the firm's work and the informative text should put its reputation where it properly belongs, equal to and sometimes even above its contemporary rivals.
— Dr Donald Buttress, LVO, OBE, Surveyor Emeritus of Westminster Abbey
Adrian Barlow's book is a scholarly biography of the outstanding and prolific stained-glass artist Charles Kempe.
— John Goodall
One comes away with a sense of the shape of Kempe's life, an interesting set of insights into his working methods, and, above all, the sense that he's a considerable artist.' 'Adrian Barlow's Kempe will send people back to the work, with much more background knowledge, with a clearer understanding of how his big Victorian studio worked, and, above all, with new enthusiasm and new eyes.
— Phillip Wilk
— Dr Jasmine Allen, Curator, The Stained Glass Museum, Ely
This is a timely and long-awaited study of the work of C.E. Kempe and his successor company, not only in stained glass but within a wider context of later 19th and early 20th century design and the Arts and Crafts movement. Its illustrations draw attention to the consistently high quality of the firm's work and the informative text should put its reputation where it properly belongs, equal to and sometimes even above its contemporary rivals.
— Dr Donald Buttress, LVO, OBE, Surveyor Emeritus of Westminster Abbey
Adrian Barlow's book is a scholarly biography of the outstanding and prolific stained-glass artist Charles Kempe.
— John Goodall
One comes away with a sense of the shape of Kempe's life, an interesting set of insights into his working methods, and, above all, the sense that he's a considerable artist.' 'Adrian Barlow's Kempe will send people back to the work, with much more background knowledge, with a clearer understanding of how his big Victorian studio worked, and, above all, with new enthusiasm and new eyes.
— Phillip Wilk
Illustrations
Foreword and Acknowledgements
Prologue
The Wheatsheaf and the Pelican
Part One: Life
Chapter 1 Sussex - School - Oxford
Chapter 2 Starting Out: Kempe and G.F. Bodley
Chapter 3 The Kempe Studio (i): Wyndham Hope Hughes
Chapter 4 The Kempe Studio (ii): John Carter
Chapter 5 The Kempe Studio (iii): John William Lisle
Part Two: Art
Chapter 6 Kempe Glass in Close-up: Friends, Patrons, Virtues
Part Three: Legacy
Chapter 7 Kempe and Old Place
Chapter 8 Kempe and Walter Tower
Chapter 9 Kempe's Reputation
Glossary
Notes and References
Gazetteer
Bibliography
Index
Foreword and Acknowledgements
Prologue
The Wheatsheaf and the Pelican
Part One: Life
Chapter 1 Sussex - School - Oxford
Chapter 2 Starting Out: Kempe and G.F. Bodley
Chapter 3 The Kempe Studio (i): Wyndham Hope Hughes
Chapter 4 The Kempe Studio (ii): John Carter
Chapter 5 The Kempe Studio (iii): John William Lisle
Part Two: Art
Chapter 6 Kempe Glass in Close-up: Friends, Patrons, Virtues
Part Three: Legacy
Chapter 7 Kempe and Old Place
Chapter 8 Kempe and Walter Tower
Chapter 9 Kempe's Reputation
Glossary
Notes and References
Gazetteer
Bibliography
Index