LIVING WITH THE ROYAL ACADEMY : ARTISTIC IDEALS AND EXPERIENCES IN ENGLAND, 1768-1848

MONKS, S. BARRELL, J. HALLET, M. (Eds)

ISBN 10: 1409403181 / ISBN 13: 9781409403180

Published by ASHGATE, FARNHAM, SURREY, UK, 2013

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BOUND BLACK CLASS WITH BRIGHT SILVER TITLES TO SPINE THIS 4to HARDCOVER FIRST THUS EDITION (THESE ESSAYS FIRST DELIVERED AS PAPERS AT A CONFERENCE IN NOVEMBER 2008 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK). 251pp WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS, THE ACADEMY QUARTET ; JOSHUA REYNOLDS, IN 1769. UN PEU GASCON: DOMINICSERRES AND THE SPECTRE OF ALIENATION. CONQUERING ACEDMY AND MARKETPLACE. THE EYE OF DELICACY : JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY REVIEWED. VENETIAN SECRETS : BENJAMIN WEST AND THE CONTEXT OF COLOUR. THOMAS BANKS AND THE SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION. APOCALYPSE AT THE ACADEMY ; DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE AND THE REVALATION OF BENJAMIN WEST. WILLIAM ETTY:" A CHILD OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY". BY ABSTRACTION SPRINGS FORTH IDEAL BEAUTYŁ THE REAL ACADEMY AND JOHN GIBSONN'S ANGLO-ROMAN MODERNITY. PLUS BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX. 8 X COLOUR PLATES AND 56 B/W FIGURES. CONDITION VG/VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LIVING WITH THE ROYAL ACADEMY : ARTISTIC IDEALS AND EXPERIENCES IN ENGLAND, 1768-1848
• Publisher: ASHGATE, FARNHAM, SURREY, UK
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409403181
• ISBN 13: 9781409403180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Thus Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

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 introduction and nine essays, this collection considers the Academy as a lived organism whose most effective role, following its establishment in 1768, was as a reference point towards, around and against which artists operated in their relationships with each other and with artistic practice itself. In so doing, this collection also considers the relationship between Academic ideals and individual practice (as well as lived experience) during this period of art’s increasingly public manifestation at the Academy. Individual artists examined include Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Wright of Derby, Benjamin West and William Etty. Thinking beyond the dichotomy of loyalism and rebellion - and complicating notions of the Academy as a monolithic ossifying institution from which progressive artists would be ’liberated’ in the wake of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s emergence in 1848 - this volume investigates the Academy’s varied impact upon the lives, experiences and ideals of its diverse artistic communities.

About the Author

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.