Politics and Culture in 18th-Century Anglo-Italian Encounters

Politics and Culture in 18th-Century Anglo-Italian Encounters
Author: Lidia De Michelis
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527535479

This collection addresses Anglo-Italian influences, correspondences and relationships through the lens of an expansive notion of eighteenth-century political history, explored in its fecund dialogue with cultural history. Its multifaceted approach fleshes out the idea of the Enlightenment community of people linking and sharing different forms and structures of knowledge into a comprehensive picture of the Age of Reason. This book probes fields of great relevance for the cultural interpretation of historical experience, and composes a lively, and as yet unexplored, map of an interconnected European world. Anglo-Italian encounters are explored here primarily through the interweaving of political and cultural history, adding a valuable cog to contemporary insight into the cosmopolitan nature of Enlightenment Europe. The essays here range in scope from the public economy and international trade to finance, moral philosophy, the ethics and politics of translation, travel, the cosmopolitan impact of Italian music and taste, and the art of gardening.

American Adversaries

American Adversaries
Author: Emily Ballew Neff
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Art and society
ISBN: 9780300196467

"Illuminating essays and more than two hundred images offer a compelling account of the 18th-century contemporary history painters John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West--America's first global art superstars"--Provided by publisher.

Art as Evidence

Art as Evidence
Author: Jules David Prown
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300084313

Art As Evidence celebrates the career of Jules Prown, historian of American art and a pioneer in the study of material culture. It brings together some of his most influential essays along with an introductory chapter, and an intellectual autobiography.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Author: Richard Wendorf
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 067480967X

Sir Joshua Reynolds explores the ways in which portrait-painting is embedded in the social fabric of a given culture as well as in the social and professional transaction between the artist and his or her subject. In addition to providing a new view of Reynolds, Wendorf's book develops a thoroughly new way of interpreting portraiture.

Benjamin West

Benjamin West
Author: Derrick R. Cartwright
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

West occupies a significant place in both American and British art histories