1st Edition
Living with the Royal Academy Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768–1848
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768-1848 offers a range of case studies which consider individual artists' personal, professional and artistic relationships with the Royal Academy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, bringing together the research of leading historians of British artistic culture during this period. Over its... Read more
Contents: Introduction: life study: living with the Royal Academy, 1768-1848, Sarah Monks; The Academy quartet: Joshua Reynolds in 1769, Mark Hallett; ’Un peu Gascon’: Dominic Serres and the spectre of alienation, Sarah Monks; Conquering Academy and marketplace: Philippe de Loutherbourg’s Channel crossing, Iain McCalman; ’The eye of delicacy’: Joseph Wright of Derby reviewed, John Bonehill; Venetian secrets: Benjamin West and the contexts of colour at the Royal Academy, Rosie Dias; Thomas Banks and the Society for Constitutional Information, John Barrell; Apocalypse at the Academy: Death on the Pale Horse and the revelation of Benjamin West, Ann Bermingham; William Etty: ’a child of the Royal Academy’, Martin Myrone; By abstraction springs forth ideal beauty? The ’real Academy’ and John Gibson’s Anglo-Roman modernity, Jason Edwards; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Sarah Monks is Lecturer in Art History at the University of East Anglia, UK.
John Barrell is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Mark Hallett is Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, UK.
'... the many fascinating insights offered by Living with the Royal Academy make a useful contribution toward the rewriting of the history of British art during the first century or so of the Royal Academy’s existence.' CAA Reviews
