Duncan Macmillan is Professor Emeritus of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Edinburgh, art critic for The Scotsman and author of numerous books including Scotland's Shrine: The Scottish National War Memorial (2014), The Art of Elizabeth Blackadder (2023) and Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art (2023), all published by Lund Humphries. In 2018 he was awarded the Sir Walter Scott Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his outstanding contribution to the appreciation of Scottish art and its place within the European tradition.
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Foreword, Gareth Fisher; Introduction; Part 1: The Later Middle Ages and the Reformation; 1. The Emergence of a Modern Nation - James III, IV and V; 2. The Reformation; 3. A Country without a Court; 4. An Age of Transition; Part 2: The Enlightenment; 5. A New Art - Portraiture comes of Age; 6. The Good Old Bards - Artists, Poets and the Primitive Ideal; 7. The Birth of Scottish Landscape; 8. Portraits of the Enlightenment: Raeburn and his Contemporaries; 9. The Poetry of Common Life: David Wilkie; 10. Genre, History and Religion: Wilkie's Later Work and his Influence; Part 3: The Victorian Era; 11. Artists of the Mid-Nineteenth Century; 12. The Romantic Landscape; 13. The High Victorians; 14. East and West: The Rural Scene; 15. The Claims of Decorative Art: A Crisis of Conscience; Part 4: The Modern Age; 16. The 1890s - The Opening of the Modern Era; 17. The Colourists; 18. Modern Romantics - James Cowie and the Edinburgh Group; 19. The Scots Renascence - Artists from between the Wars; 20. The Second War and the Post-War Period; 21. The Past Fifty Years - An Old Guard; 22. Reflections on Recent Decades; Further Reading; Index