Bonington (Chaucer Library of Art S.)
by Aubrey Noakes and Christopher Wright
Journal Your Life's Story (Creative Journals) (Blank Book Journals)
by Diary & Journal Press and Journal Your Life's Story
Breadth & Quality: Oil Studies, Watercolours & Drawings by James Ward RA
by Lowell Libson
It is sometimes thought that the renowned essayist Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was incapable of writing a big book. But in fact he developed some of his most important essays - including "Two Concepts of Liberty" and "Historical Inevitability" - from a book-length manuscript that he intended to publish but later set aside. Published here for the first time, "Political Ideas in the Romantic Age" is the only book in which Berlin lays out in one continuous account most of his key insights about the h...
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
The East India Company at Home, 1757?1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses...
A fuller, richer picture of an artist at the height of his powers Thomas Gainsborough's (1727-88) London years, from 1774 to 1788, were the pinnacle and conclusion of his career. They coincided with the establishment of the Royal Academy, of which Gainsborough was a founding member, and the city's ascendance as a center for the arts. This is a meticulously researched and readable account of how Gainsborough designed his home and studio and maintained a growing schedule of influential patrons,...
This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of "Creole," a label applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century. "Creole" implies that the geography of one's birth determines identity in ways that supersede race, language, nation, and social status. Paradoxically, the very capaciousness of the term engendered a perpetual search for visual signs of racial difference as well as a pretense to blindness about the intermingling of...
Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art (Routledge Research in Gender and Art)
by Ersy Contogouris
This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauffman, George Romney, and Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun. Adopting an art historical and feminist lens, Ersy Contogouris analyzes works of art in which Hamilton appears, her performances, and writings by her contemporaries to establish her impact on this pivotal moment in European history and art. This pioneering volume shows that Hamilton did not attempt to p...
Celebrated connoisseur, drawings collector, print dealer, book publisher and authority on the art of antiquity, Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was a pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century European art world. Focusing on the trajectory of Mariette's career, this book examines the material practices and social networks through which connoisseurs forged the idea of art as an object of empirical and historical analysis. Drawing on significant unpublished archival material as well as on histories...
Hommage a Jean Marais
by Daniel Marchesseau, Patrick Mauries, and Et Al
Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities (The Nineteenth Century)
Drawing on recent theoretical developments in gender and men s studies, Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities shows how the ideas and models of masculinity were constructed in the work of artists and writers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Paying particular attention to the representation of non-normative or alternative masculinities, the contributors take up the multiple versions of masculinity in Dante Gabriel Rossetti s paintings and poetry, masculine violence in William Morris s late rom...
La Vida de Lord Byron: Grandes Biografias En Espanol
by George Brandes
The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution traces four sites of spectatorship that exemplified the visual culture of violence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, offering a new account of the significance of violent spectacle to the birth of modernity. Considerations of the execution scaffold, salon painting, print culture and the fait divers, and waxworks displays establish the centrality of spectatorial violence to experiences of selfhood in the wake of the F...
This is the first comprehensives survey by an art historian, in English, of one of the most popular schools of art in nineteenth-century Europe. It is essential to anybody interested in issues of nineteenth-century art or Russian culture. This book offers a rich panorama of Russian society at all levels, and addresses topical intellectual issues surrounding Russian thought. Fascination for Russian visual cultures is reflected in publications and through ever-growing auction house sales and priva...