Art in Britain 1660–1815 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series) - Hardcover

Solkin, David H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300215568 ISBN 13: 9780300215564

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre, 2015

Synopsis

Art in Britain 1660–1815 presents the first social history of British art from the period known as the long 18th century, and offers a fresh and challenging look at the major developments in painting, drawing, and printmaking that took place during this period. It describes how an embryonic London art world metamorphosed into a flourishing community of native and immigrant practitioners, whose efforts ultimately led to the rise of a British School deemed worthy of comparison with its European counterparts. Within this larger narrative are authoritative accounts of the achievements of celebrated artists such as Peter Lely, William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, and J.M.W. Turner. David H. Solkin has interwoven their stories and many others into a critical analysis of how visual culture reinforced, and on occasion challenged, established social hierarchies and prevailing notions of gender, class, and race as Britain entered the modern age. More than 300 artworks, accompanied by detailed analysis, beautifully illustrate how Britain’s transformation into the world’s foremost commercial and imperial power found expression in the visual arts, and how the arts shaped the nation in return.

About this title

Book Description:

The first social history of British art of the long 18th century, this volume analyzes the role of visual culture in Britain’s emergence as a modern commercial society at the center of a global empire.  

About the Author:

David H. Solkin is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art and Dean and Deputy Director of The Courtauld Institute of Art. His publications include Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction (Tate Gallery, 1982), Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 1993) and Painting out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (Yale University Press, 2008); he is also the editor and co-author of Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836 (Yale University Press, 2001) and Turner and the Masters (Tate, 2009).

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300215568
• ISBN 13: 9780300215564
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378