Academies, Museums and Canons of Art

Language: English

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1999

0300077432 / 9780300077438

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268 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Art and Its Histories Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "This volume examines the ways in which works of art have achieved a position in the canon of Western art. Focusing on art and institutions in Britain and France from the 17th to the 19th century, the contributors explore the construction and evolution of canonical values." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Case study 1. The Arcadian shepherds: a painting by Poussin, by Emma Barker; Case study 2. The Parthenon marbles, by Colin Cunningham; Case study 3. Charles Le Brun, "art dictator of France", by Linda Walsh; Case study 4. "Mere face painters?": Hogarth, Reynolds and ideas of academic art in eighteenth-century Britain, by Gill Perry; Case study 5. Academic into modern: Turner and Leighton, by Emma Barker; Case study 6. The Albert Memorial, by Colin Cunningham; Case study 7. The National Gallery's first 50 years: "cut the cloth to suit the purse", by Anabel Thomas; Case study 8. Art in the provinces, by Emma Barker and Colin Cunningham. Size: 4to. …

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Title
Academies, Museums and Canons of Art
Author
Perry, Gill, and Cunningham, Colin (Edited by)
Publisher
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Publication year
1999
Condition
Fine
Book Type
Collectible
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0300077432
ISBN 13
9780300077438
Edition
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