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Sensation & sensibility : viewing Gainsborough's cottage door

Title
Sensation & sensibility : viewing Gainsborough's cottage door / edited by Ann Bermingham.
Publication
New Haven : Yale Center for British Art ; San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

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TextUse in library JQF 06-702Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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Additional Authors
  • Bermingham, Ann.
  • Yale Center for British Art.
  • Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Description
xii, 216 p., v p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Alternative Title
Sensation and sensibility
Subject
  • Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Rural poor in art
  • Genre painting, English > 18th century
  • Art > Exhibition techniques > History > 18th century
Note
  • "Accompanies the exhibition Sensation and sensibility: viewing Gainsborough's cottage door, co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens ... at the YCBA from 6 October to 31 December 2005 and at the Huntington from 11 February to 14 May 2006"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-211) and index.
Contents
"Innocence and health": nursing women in Gainsborough's cottage-door paintings / Susan Sloman -- Spectacles for republicans / John Barrell -- Gainsborough's cottage doors: a matter of modernity / Michael Rosenthal -- Gainsborough's cottage-door scenes: aesthetic principles, moral values / Amal Asfour and Paul Williamson -- The early collectors of The cottage door / Dongho Chun -- Gainsborough's Cottage door in Sir John Leicester's 'tent room' / Ann Bermingham -- Magic in the studio / William Vaughan -- Magic, spectacle and the art of de Loutherbourg's eidophusikon / Iain McCalman.
Call Number
JQF 06-702
ISBN
  • 0300110022 (cl : alk. paper)
  • 093060699X (cl : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005009022
OCLC
58791080
Title
Sensation & sensibility : viewing Gainsborough's cottage door / edited by Ann Bermingham.
Imprint
New Haven : Yale Center for British Art ; San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-211) and index.
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Bermingham, Ann.
Yale Center for British Art.
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Research Call Number
JQF 06-702
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