Empire to Nation - Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768-1829

Klappentext Empire to Nation offers a new consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during a critical period for both the rise of the visual arts in Britain and the expansion of the nation's imperial power. It argues that maritime imagery was central to cultivating a sense of nationhood in relation to rapidly expanding geographical knowledge and burgeoning imperial ambition. At the same time, the growth of the maritime empire presented new opportunities for artistic enterprise. Taking as its starting point the year 1768, which marks the foundation of the Royal Academy and the launch of Captain Cook's first circumnavigation, it asserts that this was not just an interesting coincidence but symptomatic of the relationship between art and empire. This relationship was officially sanctioned in the establishment of the Naval Gallery at Greenwich Hospital and the installation there of J. M. W. Turner's great Battle of Trafalgar in 1829, the year that closes this study. Between these two poles, the book traces a changing historical discourse that informed visual representation of maritime subjects Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Zusammenfassung Offers a fresh consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during a critical period for both the rise of the visual arts in Britain and the expansion of the nation's imperial power. This work begins in the year 1768! which marks the foundation of the Royal Academy and the launch of Captain Cook's first circumnavigation.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Quilley, Professor Geoff Quilley, QUILLEY GEOFF
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9780300175684
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17568-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 260 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in British Art; The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, ART / History / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Nature in art, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800