| Description |
268 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Series |
Art and its histories ; [bk. 1] |
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Art and its histories ; 1
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| Contents |
Preface / Gill Perry -- Introduction / Colin Cunningham and Emma Barker -- 1. The Arcadian Shepherds: a painting by Poussin / Emma Barker -- 2. The Parthenon marbles / Colin Cunningham -- 3. Charles Le Brun, 'art dictator of France' / Linda Walsh -- 4. 'Mere face painters? Hogarth, Reynolds and ideas of academic art in eighteenth-century Britain / Gill Perry -- 5. Academic into modern: Turner and Leighton / Emma Barker -- 6. The Albert Memorial / Colin Cunningham -- 7. The National Gallery's first 50 years: 'cut the cloth to suit the purse' / Anabel Thomas -- 8. Art in the provinces / Emma Barker and Colin Cunningham -- Conclusion / Gill Perry |
| Summary |
Examines the variety of ways in which works of art have achieved a position in the so-called canon of Western art. Focusing mainly on art and institutions in Britain and France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, the hook explores the construction and evolution of canonical values. The authors provide a series of detailed case studies to enable readers to practice using the vocabularies and analytical skills of art history. The book begins with a consideration of the nature of the modern discipline of art history and the nature of a canonical work. It explores the importance of the classical tradition in the development of the Western canon of art and introduces some of the aesthetic and cultural issues that underpin historical and contemporary valuations of the classical past |
| Notes |
Series numbering taken from jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art -- Historiography.
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| Author |
Cunningham, Colin.
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Perry, Gillian.
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Open University.
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| LC no. |
98023735 |
| ISBN |
0300077416 (h/b) |
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0300077432 (paperback) |
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