Companion to British Art - 1600 to the Present

Informationen zum Autor Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Middlesex University, UK. She has published several books on British architecture and visual culture and is author of the best selling Art History: A Very Short Introduction (2004). She is series editor of New Interventions in Art History, Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Art History, and Blackwell Anthologies in Art History.David Peters Corbett is Professor of History of Art at the University of East Anglia. He has published a number of books, and has received prizes from the Historians of British Art, College Art Association USA, and a Guardian book of the year award. He is the editor of the journal Art History. Klappentext Over the last two decades, British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study. In response to this surge of interest in the field, this collection of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provides a comprehensive introduction to British art history, from 1600 to the present.The book is organized thematically to present in depth the major preoccupations that have emerged from recent scholarship in British Art. These include aesthetics, gender, modernity, nationhood, and nationality, and the institutions of the British art world.Illustrated throughout and combining original research with a survey of the current state of the field, A Companion to British Art provides a much-needed resource for students, teachers, and researchers alike. Zusammenfassung Over the last two decades, British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations viiiAcknowledgements xiiiNotes on Contributors xivPart 1 Editors' Introduction 1Part 2 General 111 The "Englishness" of English Art Theory 13Mark A. Cheetham2 Modernity and the British 38Andrew Ballantyne3 English Art and Principled Aesthetics 60Janet WolffPart 3 Institutions 774 "Those Wilder Sorts of Painting": the Painted Interior in the Age of Antonio Verrio 79Richard Johns5 Nineteenth-Century Art Institutions and Academies 105Colin Trodd6 Crossing the Boundary: British Art across Victorianism and Modernism 131David Peters Corbett7 British Pop Art and the High/Low Divide 156Simon Faulkner8 When Attitudes Became Formless: Art and Antagonism in the 1960s 180Jo ApplinPart 4 Nationhood 1999 Art and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain 201Cynthia Roman10 International Exhibitions: Linking Culture, Commerce, and Nation 220Julie F. Codell11 Itinerant Surrealism: British Surrealism either side of the Second World War 241Ben Highmore12 55° North 3° West: a Panorama from Scotland 265Tom Normand13 Retrieving, Remapping, and Rewriting Histories of British Art: Lubaina Humid's "Revenge" 289Dorothy RowePart 5 Landscape 31514 Defining, Shaping, and Picturing Landscape in the Nineteenth Century 317Anne Helmreich15 Theories of the Picturesque 351Michael Charlesworth16 Landscape into Art: Painting and Place-Making in England, c.1760-1830 373Tom Williamson17 Landscape Painting, c.1770-1840 397Sam Smiles18 Landscape and National Identity: the Phoenix Park Dublin 422Dana ArnoldPart 6 Men and Women 44919 The Elizabethan Miniature 451Dympna Callaghan20 "The Crown and Glory of a Woman": Female Chastity in Eighteenth-Century British Art 473Kate Retford21 Serial Portraiture and the Death of Man in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain 502Whitney Davis22 Virtue, Vice, Gossip, and Sex: Narratives of Gender in Victorian and Edwardian Painting 532Pamela M. FletcherIndex 552...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viiiAcknowledgements xiiiNotes on Contributors xivPart 1 Editors' Introduction 1Part 2 General 111 The "Englishness" of English Art Theory 13Mark A. Cheetham2 Modernity and the British 38Andrew Ballantyne3 English Art and Principled Aesthetics 60Janet WolffPart 3 Institutions 774 "Those Wilder Sorts of Painting": the Painted Interior in the Age of Antonio Verrio 79Richard Johns5 Nineteenth-Century Art Institutions and Academies 105Colin Trodd6 Crossing the Boundary: British Art across Victorianism and Modernism 131David Peters Corbett7 British Pop Art and the High/Low Divide 156Simon Faulkner8 When Attitudes Became Formless: Art and Antagonism in the 1960s 180Jo ApplinPart 4 Nationhood 1999 Art and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain 201Cynthia Roman10 International Exhibitions: Linking Culture, Commerce, and Nation 220Julie F. Codell11 Itinerant Surrealism: British Surrealism either side of the Second World War 241Ben Highmore12 55° North 3° West: a Panorama from Scotland 265Tom Normand13 Retrieving, Remapping, and Rewriting Histories of British Art: Lubaina Humid's "Revenge" 289Dorothy RowePart 5 Landscape 31514 Defining, Shaping, and Picturing Landscape in the Nineteenth Century 317Anne Helmreich15 Theories of the Picturesque 351Michael Charlesworth16 Landscape into Art: Painting and Place-Making in England, c.1760-1830 373Tom Williamson17 Landscape Painting, c.1770-1840 397Sam Smiles18 Landscape and National Identity: the Phoenix Park Dublin 422Dana ArnoldPart 6 Men and Women 44919 The Elizabethan Miniature 451Dympna Callaghan20 "The Crown and Glory of a Woman": Female Chastity in Eighteenth-Century British Art 473Kate Retford21 Serial Portraiture and the Death of Man in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain 502Whitney Davis22 Virtue, Vice, Gossip, and Sex: Narratives of Gender in Victorian and Edwardian Painting 532Pamela M. FletcherIndex 552

Bericht

"The editors have brought together the latest conclusions of prominent specialists of each period to build a fascinating panorama which is more than the sum of its parts and will delight both newcomers to the field and specialists of British art who will appreciate its coherence and thorough enjoyability. A Companion to British Art should feature in all good libraries covering British and art history." ( Cercles , 1 March 2014)

"While aimed at tutors and students, these often dense essays will appeal most to scholars wishing to explore provocative new approaches to the study of British art. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." ( Choice , 1 November 2013)

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dana Arnold, Dana Corbett Arnold, Dana Arnold, David Peters Corbett
• Mitarbeit: Dan Arnold (Herausgeber), Dana Arnold (Herausgeber), David Peters Corbett (Herausgeber), Professor David Peters Corbett (Herausgeber), Peters Corbett (Herausgeber), Peters Corbett (Herausgeber), David Peters Corbett (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.02.2013
• EAN: 9781405136297
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-3629-7
• Seiten: 588
• Serien: Blackwell Companions to Art History; BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ART HI; Blackwell Companions to Art History; BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ART HI
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Kunstgeschichte