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Zusatztext 'Well illustrated! and beautifully produced! this book represents a landmark in the study of neglected and still controversial field of scholarship.' Journal of the History of Collections 'The essays in the volume are striking for the variety of their approaches to the subject and interdisciplinary methodologies.' The Art Book. Informationen zum Autor Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz Preface by Stephen Bann Martin Myrone is Programme Curator! pre-1900 Art at the Tate Gallery of British Art. Lucy Peltz is Assistant Curator of Paintings! Prints and Drawings at the Museum of London. Stephen Bann is Head of Cultural Studies at the University of Kent. Zusammenfassung First published in 1999, this volume evaluates the cultural and poltical implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ceci n’est pas un Monument: Vetusta Monumenta and Antiquarian Aesthetics. Maria Grazia Lolla. 2. Graphic Antiquarianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: the Career and Reputation of George Vertue (1684-1756). Martin Myrone. 3. British Antiquity and Antiquarian Illustration. Sam Smiles. 4. ‘A small journey into the country’: William Stukeley and the Formal Landscapes of Stonehenge and Avebury. David Haycock. 5. The True Rust of the Baron’s Wars: Gardens, Ruins and the National Landscape. Stephen Bending. 6. Caspar David Friedrich and National Antiquarianism in Northern Germany. Johann J.K. Reusch. 7. The Extra-Illustration of London: the Gendered Spaces and Practices of Antiquarianism in the Late Eighteenth Century. Lucy Peltz. 8. The Desk: Excavation Site and Repository of Memories. Annegret Pelz, translated and revised by Anne Puetz. 9. Antiquarianism, Connoisseurship and the Northern Renaissance Print: New Collecting Cultures in the Early Nineteenth Century. Heather MacLennan. 10. Science and Sensibility: Architectural Antiquarianism in the Early Nineteenth Century. Alexandrina Buchanan. 11. Story, History and the Passionate Collector. Susan A. Crane. ...
