The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt

The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt
Author: John Barrell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300063554

What is the function of painting in a commercial society? This text describes how British artists of the late-18th and early-19th centuries attempted to answer this question.

Key Writers on Art: From antiquity to the nineteenth century

Key Writers on Art: From antiquity to the nineteenth century
Author: Chris Murray
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0415243017

Arranged chronologically, features more than forty essays by an international panel of experts on art, art critiicism, and art therory tracing the evolution of art from ancient times to the twentieth century.

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850
Author: Christopher John Murray
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1304
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135455783

In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

Conversing by Signs

Conversing by Signs
Author: Robert Blair St. George
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780807846889

The people of colonial New England lived in a metaphoric landscape, beset with superstition and fear of dangers, real and imagined, seen and unseen. According to folklorist Robert St. George, meaning was layered, often indirect, and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. Understanding their "language" is essential to appreciating their history. 134 illustrations.

The Literate Eye

The Literate Eye
Author: Rachel Teukolsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009-07-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0195381378

Rather than focusing on German philosophy or the French avant-gardes, as many books on the history of aesthetics do, Teukolsky takes up British responses to modern art controversies, thus providing a unique view on the development of artistic forms and art history. She considers the canonical writing of authors like John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde alongside texts belonging to the rich field of Victorian print culture--gallery reviews, scientific treatises, satirical cartoons, advertisements, and early photography monographs among them. Spanning the years 1840 to 1910, her argument also adds substance to our understanding of the transition from Victorianism to modernism, a period of especially lively exchange between artists and intellectuals, here narrated with careful attention given to the historical particularities and real events that stamped their imprint on such interactions.

A Companion to British Art

A Companion to British Art
Author: David Peters Corbett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1119170117

This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history. A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British art Combines original research with a survey of existing scholarship and the state of the field Touches on the whole of the history of British art, from 800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after 1500 Provides the first comprehensive introduction to British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study Presents in depth the major preoccupations that have emerged from recent scholarship, including aesthetics, gender, British art’s relationship to Modernity, nationhood and nationality, and the institutions of the British art world

Romantic Art in Practice

Romantic Art in Practice
Author: Thora Brylowe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108426409

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

Fashion in European Art

Fashion in European Art
Author: Justine De Young
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786722240

Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often critiquing the making of the self and the image. Reading their portrayals of modern life with an eye to fashion and dress reveals a world of complex calculations and subtle signals. Extensively illustrated, Fashion in European Art explores the significance of historical dress over this period of upheaval, as well as the lived experience of dress and its representation. Drawing on visual sources that extend from paintings and photographs to fashion plates, caricatures and advertisements, the expert contributors consider how artists and their sitters engaged with the fashion and culture of their times. They explore the politics of dress, its inspirations and the reactions it provoked, as well as the many meanings of fashion in European art, revealing its importance in understanding modernity itself.