bokomslag The Classical Body in Romantic Britain
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The Classical Body in Romantic Britain

Cora Gilroy-Ware

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  • 320 sidor
  • 2020
A radical, lively departure from received notions about art of the Romantic period For many, the term neoclassicism has come to imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to the early Victorian period, casting new light on appropriations of the classical body by British artists. It is the first to foreground the intersections of gender, race, and class in discussions of British visual classicism, laying bare artists alternately politicizing and emphatically sensual engagements with Greco-Roman art. Rather than rely exclusively on subsequent scholarship, the book takes up the poet John Keats (17951821) as a theoretical framework. Eschewing the Golden Age narrative, which sees J. M. W. Turner (17751851) as the pinnacle of the periods artistic achievement, the book examines overlooked artists, such as Henry Howard (17691847) and John Graham Lough (17981876). The result is a fresh account of underappreciated works of British painting and sculpture. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
  • Författare: Cora Gilroy-Ware
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781913107062
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-04-14
  • Förlag: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art