基本説明
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.
Full Description
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
Contents
List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgements xiii Notes on Contributors xiv Part 1 Editors Introduction 1 Part 2 General 11 1 The Englishness of English Art Theory 13 Mark A. Cheetham 2 Modernity and the British 38 Andrew Ballantyne 3 English Art and Principled Aesthetics 60 Janet Wolff Part 3 Institutions 77 4 Those Wilder Sorts of Painting : the Painted Interior in the Age of Antonio Verrio 79 Richard Johns 5 Nineteenth-Century Art Institutions and Academies 105 Colin Trodd 6 Crossing the Boundary: British Art across Victorianism and Modernism 131 David Peters Corbett 7 British Pop Art and the High/Low Divide 156 Simon Faulkner 8 When Attitudes Became Formless: Art and Antagonism in the 1960s 180 Jo Applin Part 4 Nationhood 199 9 Art and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain 201 Cynthia Roman 10 International Exhibitions: Linking Culture, Commerce, and Nation 220 Julie F. Codell 11 Itinerant Surrealism: British Surrealism either side of the Second World War 241 Ben Highmore 12 55 North 3 West: a Panorama from Scotland 265 Tom Normand 13 Retrieving, Remapping, and Rewriting Histories of British Art: Lubaina Humid s Revenge 289 Dorothy Rowe Part 5 Landscape 315 14 Defining, Shaping, and Picturing Landscape in the Nineteenth Century 317 Anne Helmreich 15 Theories of the Picturesque 351 Michael Charlesworth 16 Landscape into Art: Painting and Place-Making in England, c.1760 1830 373 Tom Williamson 17 Landscape Painting, c.1770 1840 397 Sam Smiles 18 Landscape and National Identity: the Phoenix Park Dublin 422 Dana Arnold Part 6 Men and Women 449 19 The Elizabethan Miniature 451 Dympna Callaghan 20 The Crown and Glory of a Woman : Female Chastity in Eighteenth-Century British Art 473 Kate Retford 21 Serial Portraiture and the Death of Man in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain 502 Whitney Davis 22 Virtue, Vice, Gossip, and Sex: Narratives of Gender in Victorian and Edwardian Painting 532 Pamela M. Fletcher Index 552
