The Royal Academy and Its Members, 1768-1830 (Classic Reprint)
The Royal Academy and Its Members, 1768-1830 (Classic Reprint)

Author: John Evan Hodgson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9781333605797

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Excerpt from The Royal Academy and Its Members, 1768-1830 A considerable portion of the matter contained in this volume has appeared in the pages of the Art journal, the proprietors of which magazine have kindly given their sanction for its use. The approval which the articles in their original form met with from members of the Academy and others, encouraged me to think that, with certain alterations and additions, they might meet with acceptance from the public as an authentic history of the Royal Academy and its members for the first sixty years of the existence of the Institution. 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.

Living with the Royal Academy
Living with the Royal Academy

Author: Sarah Monks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1351559966

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Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768-1848 offers a range of case studies which consider individual artists' personal, professional and artistic relationships with the Royal Academy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, bringing together the research of leading historians of British artistic culture during this period. Over its introduction and nine essays, this collection considers the Academy as a lived organism whose most effective role, following its establishment in 1768, was as a reference point towards, around and against which artists operated in their relationships with each other and with artistic practice itself. In so doing, this collection also considers the relationship between Academic ideals and individual practice (as well as lived experience) during this period of art?s increasingly public manifestation at the Academy. Individual artists examined include Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Wright of Derby, Benjamin West and William Etty. Thinking beyond the dichotomy of loyalism and rebellion - and complicating notions of the Academy as a monolithic ossifying institution from which progressive artists would be ?liberated? in the wake of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?s emergence in 1848 - this volume investigates the Academy?s varied impact upon the lives, experiences and ideals of its diverse artistic communities.

Living with the Royal Academy
Living with the Royal Academy

Author: Professor John Barrell

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781409403180

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Living with the Royal Academy directs attention to the textures of artists' relationships with the Royal Academy in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This essay collection considers the Academy as a lived organism, one whose most effective role was as a reference point around which artists operated in their relationships with each other and with artistic practice itself.

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.

Woman Behind the Painter
Woman Behind the Painter

Author: Rosalie Hook

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2006-03-04

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780888644374

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"Rosalie Hook's diaries of her doings at home and abroad with her painter husband provide a fascinating window on the Victorian art world. James Clarke Hook, a brilliant and successful painter whose "Hookscapes" uniquely acquainted the British public with the beauties of their shores, first took his young bride to Italy on a traveling studentship awarded by the Royal Academy; and Rosalie eagerly records her response to the art treasures around her, to the ceremonies surrounding the Pope at Easter, to Vesuvius in eruption, and then to the political upheavals of the Risorgimento. Her Italy Diary vividly documents a sympathetic English response to the volatile southern culture. The son of a bankrupt, James Clarke Hook (1819-1907) managed, at a time of unprecedented prestige for the artist, to paint himself into country-gentlemanhood.