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Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1588393488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering the period between the late 16th century through to the third quarter of the 19th century, this book features paintings by English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish artists which are part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author: Christopher Wright
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 950
ISBN-13: 9780300117301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.
Author: Henry George Bohn
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 2130
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jim Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-08
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 131643236X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe popularity of the comic performers of late-Georgian and Regency England and their frequent depiction in portraits, caricatures and prints is beyond dispute, yet until now little has been written on the subject. In this unique study Jim Davis considers the representation of English low comic actors, such as Joseph Munden, John Liston, Charles Mathews and John Emery, in the visual arts of the period, the ways in which such representations became part of the visual culture of their time, and the impact of visual representation and art theory on prose descriptions of comic actors. Davis reveals how many of the actors discussed also exhibited or collected paintings and used painterly techniques to evoke the world around them. Drawing particularly on the influence of Hogarth and Wilkie, he goes on to examine portraiture as critique and what the actors themselves represented in terms of notions of national and regional identity.
Author: Kalman A. Burnim
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 696
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA catalogue of over 1000 paintings, drawings, watercolours and sculpture that constitute the London Garrick Club's collection of British theatrical works of art.
Author: Shearer West
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1991-03-15
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780312057381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe mistake of interpreting 18th-century theatrical portraits too literally has been made since the 19th-century when a different set of artistic codes prevailed. The image of the 18th-century actor which we can obtain from prints, paintings and pamphlets of the time, is not a collection of visual truths, but a construction based on critical canons, aesthetic prejudices, and commercial motivations prevalent during the period. Through an analysis of the importance of theatre among all the pleasures and pastimes enjoyed by 18th-century Londoners the author presents a detailed picture of the cultural climate inhabited by the actor and his audience. The overwhelming fascination they had with the actor provides the background to an analysis of the function of the theatrical portrait, the burgeoning economy of the engraver, and the illustrator. Concepts of classicism and realism are explored in terms of how Garrick and Kemble will have been viewed in their work. The author also draws an interesting analogy between the aesthetics of action and sculptural representation through the work of Siddons, and goes on to consider the representation of the comic actor and how it was informed by art and art theory.
Author: Kalman A. Burnim
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780809321230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor this catalog, Kalman A. Burnim has selected more than 360 portraits from various editions of the John Bell publication Bell's Shakespeare (including John Barker's continuation of 1799-1800) and from Bell's British Theatre (including George Cawthorn's 1797 edition). Philip H. Highfill Jr. has furnished the introductory essay for the catalog. Most of these portraits are by James Roberts and Samuel De Wilde, who were among the leading painters of actors and actresses between 1770 and 1820. Richard Cosway, William Hamilton, Gilbert Stuart, and other painters also have work represented in the catalog. The engraved versions are by James Thornthwaite, William Leney, Philippe Audinet, and others. When possible, each entry is illustrated by a reproduction of the engraving or by an original picture. For each entry, Burnim provides details of publication, the provenance and related pictures, the locations of the originals, and commentary.
Author: Antonella Braida
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-02
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1351197738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"What was the role of images in the Western tradition? And how did they relate to the printed work? The essays in this wide-ranging collection address these questions by presenting a variety of material, including visual representations that can be read as texts and traditional book illustrations. The editors offer a critical review of visual arts and texts, encompassing thirteenth-century Spanish miniatures, Italian Renaissance painting and book illustrations, the explosion of inter-arts comparisons in the nineteenth century in the works of such diverse writers as Blake, Mallarme and D'Annunzio, and the modern debate on the visual arts."
Author: Nora Nachumi
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2022-07-15
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1644532646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking Stars provides multiple perspectives on the simultaneous emergence of modern forms of life writing and celebrity culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Crossing multiple genres and media, contributors reveal the complex and varied ways in which these modern ways of thinking about individual identity mutually conditioned their emergence during this formative period.
Author: Sidney Jackson Jowers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 1136746420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
