Ulteriori informazioni
Informationen zum Autor Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University Kate Retford is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London Jordan Vibert is a Freelance Researcher specialising in eighteenth-century art and culture Hannah Lyons is a Researcher and Information Assistant at Tate Britain, London Klappentext Explores the relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain Zusammenfassung Explores the relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: placing faces in the country housePart 1: A walk around the house1. The topography of the conversation piece: a walk around Wanstead - Kate Retford2. Life in the library - Susie West3. Marble, memory and theatre: portraiture and the sculpture gallery at Chatsworth - Alison YarringtonPART 2: Women's space?4. Dirty dancing at Knole: portraits of Giovanna Baccelli and the performance of 'Public Intimacy' - Gill Perry5. 'Necessary, usefull, easy and delightfull'; the production and display of pastel portraits in the English country house - Ruth Kenny6. Georgiana at Althorp: Spencer family portraits 1755-1783 - Emma BarkerPART 3: Imperial Designs7. Commemorating Captain Cook in the country estate - Harriet Guest8. Framing Sir Francis: Lady Anne Stanhope and the corruption of civic masculinity - Jordan Vibert9. The Waterloo Chamber before the Battle of Waterloo - Desmond Shawe TaylorBibliographyIndex
