Conflicting Visions - War and Visual Culture in Britain and France, 1700-1830

Informationen zum Autor Dr John Bonehill is Lecturer for the Department of History of Art at the University of Leicester, UK. Dr Geoff Quilley is Curator of Maritime Art at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK. Klappentext Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France, c. 1700-1830 offers the first systematic reappraisal of the cultural representation of war in Britain and France during the 'long' eighteenth century. This radical collection of essays explores the relation of visual imagery and aesthetics to conflict during this important period, drawing upon a wealth of materials including paintings and prints, maps and topographical drawings, commemorative sculpture and historical artifacts. Zusammenfassung Offers the first systematic reappraisal of the cultural representation of war in Britain and France during the eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction, John Bonehill and Geoff Quilley; Gloire surrenders: Watteau's military paintings, Julie Ann Plax; Making national heroes? A survey of the social and political functions and meanings of major British funeral monuments to naval and military figures, 1730-70, Matthew Craske; Legitimating the British empire: the monuments to General Wolfe in Westminster Abbey, Joan Coutu; Our man in Havanna: representation and reputation in Lieutenant Philip Orsbridge's Britannia's Triumph (1765), Sarah Monks; Questions of loyalty: the representation of the British West Indian colonies during the American Revolutionary War, Geoff Quilley; Exhibiting war: John Singleton Copley's The Siege of Gibraltar and the staging of history, John Bonehill; The embodiment of strength: depicting a general as civil leader, Tony Halliday; 'Shocking sights of woe': Charles Bell and the Battle of Waterloo, Philip Shaw; The matérial of war: Waterloo and its culture, Susan Pearce; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. John Bonehill, Dr. John Quilley Bonehill, John Bonehill, Geoff Bonehill Quilley
• Assisted by: Geoff Quilley (Editor), Professor Geoff Quilley (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2005
• EAN: 9780754605751
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-0575-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; France, ART / History / General, ART / European, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Art treatments & subjects, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, British Isles, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, The Arts: treatments and subjects