The History of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. 1 of 2
The History of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. 1 of 2

Author: William Sandby

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-23

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780484564861

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Excerpt from The History of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. 1 of 2: From Its Foundation in 1768 to the Present Time; With Biographical Notices of All the Members My own surprise is that an account of the Royal Academy, combined with notices of its members, has not been published long since; and it was only after continued expectancy that such a Work would be written by an abler hand, that I ventured to undertake it feeling that every year's delay would make the task more unsatisfactory, and the information, as to the early part of the history, less accurate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The King's Artists : The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840
The King's Artists : The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840

Author: Holger Hoock

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2003-11-13

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780191556104

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This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the British Isles and North America. This is the first study of its early years, re-evaluating the Academy's significance in national cultural life and its profile in an international context. Holger Hoock reassesses royal and state patronage of the arts and explores the concepts and practices of cultural patriotism and the politicization of art during the American and French Revolutions. By demonstrating how the Academy shaped the notions of an English and British school of art and influenced the emergence of the British cultural state, he illuminates the politics of national culture and the character of British public life in an age of war, revolution, and reform.

The Development of the Art Market in England
The Development of the Art Market in England

Author: Thomas M Bayer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1317323831

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This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

Artist of Wonderland
Artist of Wonderland

Author: Frankie Morris

Publisher: Lutterworth Press

Published: 2023-03-30

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13: 0718847857

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Best known today as the illustrator of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was one of the Victorian era's chief political cartoonists. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family collections, public archives, and other depositories. Frankie Morris examines Tenniel's life and work, producing a book that is not only a definitive resource for scholars and collectors but one that can be easily enjoyed by everyone interested in Victorian life and art, social history, journalism and political cartoons, and illustrated books. In the first part of the book, Morris looks at Tenniel the man. From his sunny childhood and early enthusiasm for sports, theatre, and medievalism to his flirtation with high art and his fifty years with the London journal Punch, Tenniel is shown to have been the sociable and urbane humorist revealed in his drawings. Tenniel's countrymen thought his work would embody for future historians the 'trend and character' of Victorian thought and life. Morris assesses to what extent that prediction has been fulfilled. The biography is followed by three sections on Tenniel's work, consisting of thirteen independent essays in which the author examines Tenniel's methods and his earlier book illustrations, the Alice pictures, and the Punch cartoons. For lovers of Alice, Morris offers six chapters on Tenniel's work for Carroll. These reveal demonstrable links with Christmas pantomimes, Punch and Judy shows, nursery toys, magic lanterns, nineteenth-century grotesques, Gothic revivalism, and social caricatures. Morris also demonstrates how Tenniel's cartoons depicted the key political questions of his day, from the Eastern Question to Lincoln and the American Civil War, examining their assumptions, devices, and evolving strategies. The definitive study of both the man and the work, Artist of Wonderland gives an unprecedented view of the cartoonist who mythologized the world for generations of Britons.