James Northcote, History Painting, and the "Fables" (British Art Centre at Yale Series (YUP)) - Hardcover

Ledbury, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300208138 ISBN 13: 9780300208139

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Physical description; ix, 246 p. : colour and black & white illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 32 cm. Summary; "The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746-1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom Northcote apprenticed. Here, Mark Ledbury constructs a very different image of Northcote: that of a prolific member of the Royal Academy and an active participant in the cultural and political circles of the Romantic era, as well as a portrait and history painter in his own right. This book focuses on Northcote's One Hundred Fables (1828), a masterpiece of wood engraving, and the unconventional, collaged manuscripts for the volume. An underappreciated and courageously eccentric masterpiece, the Fables, extensively published here for the first time, were an early experiment in what is now a familiar multimedia practice. Idiosyncratic, personal and visionary, One Hundred Fables serves as a lens through which to examine Northcote's long, complex and fruitful artistic career" Subject; Northcote, James (British painter, 1746-1831) - Exhibitions.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Ledbury is Power Professor of Art History and director of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300208138
• ISBN 13: 9780300208139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256