Research Catalog

Title

A companion to British art : 1600 to the present / edited by Dana Arnold and David Peters Corbett.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Arnold, Dana
• Peters Corbett, David, 1956-

Description

xviii, 570 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Provides a diverse collection of essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history.

Series Statement

Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history ; 5

Uniform Title

Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history ; 5.

Subjects

• Art, British
• History
• Art britannique

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1: editor's introduction -- Part 2: General -- The "Englishness" of English art theory / Mark A. Cheetham -- Modernity and the British / Andrew Ballantyne -- English art and principled aesthetics / Janet Wolff -- Part 3: Institutions -- "Those wilder sorts of painting": the painted interior in the age of Antonio Verrio / Richard Jones -- Nineteenth-century art institutions and academies / Colin Trodd -- Crossing the boundary: British art across Victorianism and Modernism / David Peters Corbett -- British Pop Art and the high/low divide / Simon Faulkner -- When attitudes became formless: art and antagonism in the 1960s / Jo Applin -- Part 4: Nationhood -- Art and nation in eighteenth-century Britain / Cynthia Roman -- International exhibitions: linking culture, commerce, and nation / Julie F. Codell -- Itinerant surrealism: British surrealism either side of the Second World War / Ben Highmore -- 55° North 3° West: a panorama from Scotland / Tom Normand -- Retrieving, remapping, and rewriting histories of British art: Lubaina Humid's "Revenge" / Dorothy Rowe -- Part 5: Landscape -- Defining, shaping, and picturing landscape in the nineteenth century / Anne Helmreich -- Theories of the picturesque / Michael Charlesworth -- Landscape into art: painting and place-making in England, c. 1760-1830 / Tom Williamson -- Landscape painting, c. 1770-1840 / Sam Smiles -- Landscape and national identity: the Phoenix Park Dublin / Dana Arnold -- Part 6: Men and women -- The Elizabethan miniature / Dympna Callaghan -- "The crown and glory of a women": female chastity in eighteenth-century British art / Kate Retford -- Serial portraiture and the death of man in late-eighteenth-century Britain / Whitney Davis -- Virtue, vice, gossip, and sex: narratives of gender in Victorian and Edwardian painting / Pamela M. Fletcher.

Call Number

JQF 16-412

ISBN

• 9781405136297
• 1405136294
• 1118313763
• 9781118313763
• 9781119170112
• 1119170117

LCCN

2012033131

OCLC

779587349

Title

A companion to British art : 1600 to the present / edited by Dana Arnold and David Peters Corbett.

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history ; 5

Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history ; 5.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Arnold, Dana, editor.

Peters Corbett, David, 1956- editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 16-412