Schomberg Thomas (1 results)
Language: English
Published by Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT & London 1993
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. © 1993. 278 pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, collectible gem! A wonderful copy and dust jacket. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very…light shelf wear. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Synopsis: England in the 18th century possessed a thriving portrait culture which was part of a network of visual communication that encompassed print-collecting, popular performance and figurative acts of speech. In this book, Marcia Pointon demonstrates how portraiture provided mechanisms both for constructing and accessing a national past and for controlling a present that appeared increasingly unruly. Through historical analyses of particular aspects of portrait representation - images of criminals, the fashions and rituals around the masculine culture of hair and wigs, the gendering of childhood in paintings like "Penelope Boothby" or "Pinkie" - Pointon establishes the ways in which portraiture signified 18th-century England. How "the head" was hung was determined by social rules of posture and decorum, by artistic convention and commerical practice, and literally by the ways in which patrons chose to hang in particular arrangements on walls - paintings that served ritual and symbolic as well as decorative functions. Gillian Malpass (Design); 'Dr. Isaac Schomberg' by Thomas Hudson (Front Jacket Illustration); 'A Selection of Wigs' from M. de Garsault (Back Jacket Illustration) (illustrator).
