1st Edition
English Accents Interactions with British Art c. 1776-1855
By Christiana Payne
Copyright 2004
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the century following the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, British art had an international reputation: prints spread knowledge of the work of British artists around the globe, and it was widely seen as the product of a modern, commercial society, and much admired by artists as diverse as Goya in Spain, Delacroix in France, and Bierstadt in America. In recent years, scholars working on... Read more
Contents: Introduction: international cross-currents in an age of nationalism, Christiana Payne; Americans in London: contemporary history painting revisited, David Bindman; Papierkultur: the British print, history and modernity in Enlightenment Germany, Anne-Marie Link; 'Everything English is the mode here': Russian reactions to British painting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Galina Andreeva; A view of New Holland: aspects of the colonial prospect, Michael Rosenthal; 'A new people and a limited society': British art and the Spanish spectator, Sarah Symmons; A la recherche de l' le anglaise: Lawrence, Wilkie and Martin, three British artists in Restoration France, Barth my Jobert; 'Consciously objective and moral': Hogarth and the political artist in Vormärz Germany, William Vaughan; American landscape painting and the European paradigm, Andrew Wilton; Slavs, Brits and the question of national identity in art: Russian responses to British painting in the mid 19th century, Rosalind P. Blakesley; Unmistakably American? National myths and the historiography of landscape painting in the USA, Tim Barringer; Afterword: British art and its histories, William Vaughan; Select bibliography; Index.
Biography
Christiana Payne, Oxford Brookes University, UK and William Vaughan, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Christiana Payne, David Bindman, Anne-Marie Link, Galina Andreeva, Michael Rosenthal, Sarah Symmons, Barthelemy Jobert, William Vaughan, Andrew Wilton, Rosalind P. Blakesley, Tim Barringer.
