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Author Arnold, Dana

Title A Companion to British Art : 1600 to the Present
Published Chicester : Wiley, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (590 pages)
Series Blackwell Companions to Art History
Blackwell companions to art history.
Contents A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Part 1 Editors' Introduction; Editors' Introduction; Part 2 General; 1 The "Englishness" of English Art Theory; Notes; 2 Modernity and the British; Ancient Modernity; Early Modern Modernity; Present Modernity; Progressive Modernity; Insular Responses; Modernist Tradition; Notes; 3 English Art and Principled Aesthetics; Notes; Part 3 Institutions; 4 "Those Wilder Sorts of Painting": The Painted Interior in the Age of Antonio Verrio; The Bigger Picture
On Painted CeilingsBeyond the Baroque; Hercules on the Stairs; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 5 Nineteenth-Century Art Institutions and Academies; Valuation and Investigation at the Royal Academy; Social Values and Academic Norms; The Institutional Body; Notes; 6 Crossing the Boundary: British Art across Victorianism and Modernism; Binyon and the Saturday Review; Binyon's Theory of Art; Art and Life; The New Art; Binyon and Modernism; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; 7 British Pop Art and the High/Low Divide; Introduction; Revisiting the Cultural Continuum
Artistic Agency and the High/Low DivideBritish Pop Art in the Early 1960s; Derek Boshier and Richard Smith; Conclusion; Notes; 8 When Attitudes Became Formless: Art and Antagonism in the 1960s; Opticality and "the Eye/Body" Problem; Art, Objecthood, and Modernist Sculpture; Pop Goes London: Transatlantic Exchange and the Anxiety of Influence; Anti-form and Anti-monumentality: Modernism under Pressure; Destruction in Art; Notes; Part 4 Nationhood; 9 Art and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Notes; 10 International Exhibitions: Linking Culture, Commerce, and Nation
Mapping as Cultural Practice in International ExhibitionsThe Great Exhibition, 1851: Culture, Commerce, and Display; Visuality, Things, and the Display of Nations; National Unity and the New; Spectacles beyond Time and Space; The Fine Arts; Displaying the Empire; Franco-British Exhibition, 1908: Modernism and Women; Conclusion; Notes; 11 Itinerant Surrealism: British Surrealism either side of the Second World War; Introduction; Swanage 1936; Burlington Gardens 1936; Blackheath 1936; From War to Postwar; British Surrealism Now; Conclusion: Art in a National Frame; Notes
12 55° North 3° West: A Panorama from ScotlandA Scottish Imaginary; Something like a "Tradition"; Being Scottish, Being British, Being Internationalist; Festival Times; Mapping and Remapping; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 13 Retrieving, Remapping, and Rewriting Histories of British Art: Lubaina Himid's "Revenge"; Thinking Conjuncturally; At the Water's Edge; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; Notes; Part 5 Landscape; 14 Defining, Shaping, and Picturing Landscape in the Nineteenth Century; Defining Terms; Situated in the Social Realm; Modes of Landscape Representation; Social-Historical Framework
Summary 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 artCombines 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 1500Provides the first comprehensive introductio
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Subject Art, British.
Art, British
Form Electronic book
Author Peters Corbett, David
LC no. 2012033131
ISBN 9781118313763
1118313763
9781405136297
1405136294