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 INDICE: 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 13Mark A. Cheetham .2 Modernity and the British 38Andrew Ballantyne .3 English Art and Principled Aesthetics 60Janet Wolff .Part 3 Institutions 77 .4 Those Wilder Sorts of Painting : the Painted Interior in the Age of Antonio Verrio 79Richard Johns .5 Nineteenth–Century Art Institutions and Academies 105Colin Trodd .6 Crossing the Boundary: British Art across Victorianism and Modernism 131David Peters Corbett .7 British Pop Art and the High/Low Divide 156Simon Faulkner .8 When Attitudes Became Formless: Art and Antagonism in the 1960s 180Jo Applin .Part 4 Nationhood 199 .9 Art and Nation in Eighteenth–Century Britain 201Cynthia Roman .10 International Exhibitions: Linking Culture, Commerce, and Nation 220Julie F. Codell .11 Itinerant Surrealism: British Surrealism either side of the Second World War 241Ben Highmore .12 55° North 3° West: a Panorama from Scotland 265Tom Normand .13 Retrieving, Remapping, and Rewriting Histories of British Art: Lubaina Humid s Revenge 289Dorothy Rowe .Part 5 Landscape 315 .14 Defining, Shaping, and Picturing Landscape in the Nineteenth Century 317Anne Helmreich .15 Theories of the Picturesque 351Michael Charlesworth .16 Landscape into Art: Painting and Place–Making in England, c.1760 1830 373Tom Williamson .17 Landscape Painting, c.1770 1840 397Sam Smiles .18 Landscape and National Identity: the Phoenix Park Dublin 422Dana Arnold .Part 6 Men and Women 449 .19 The Elizabethan Miniature 451Dympna Callaghan .20 The Crown and Glory of a Woman : Female Chastity in Eighteenth–Century British Art 473Kate Retford .21 Serial Portraiture and the Death of Man in Late–Eighteenth–Century Britain 502Whitney Davis .22 Virtue, Vice, Gossip, and Sex: Narratives of Gender in Victorian and Edwardian Painting 532Pamela M. Fletcher .Index 552
- ISBN: 978-1-119-17011-2
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 800
- Fecha Publicación: 11/12/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés