The artist as original genius : Shakespeare's "fine frenzy" in late-eighteenth-century British art /...
The artist as original genius : Shakespeare's "fine frenzy" in late-eighteenth-century British art /...
The artist as original genius : Shakespeare's "fine frenzy" in late-eighteenth-century British art / William L. Pressly.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press, c2007.
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NQ759.20903/6
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
235 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
Delaware
Date Published
c2007.
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Access Conditions
State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"This book examines the first generation of artists in Britain to define themselves as history painters, attempting what then was considered to be art's most exalted category. Seizing on the new critical discourse of original genius as championed in new books such as Edward Young's Conjectures on Original Composition of 1759, they rejected traditio...
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The artist as original genius : Shakespeare's "fine frenzy" in late-eighteenth-century British art / William L. Pressly.
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The University of Delaware Press studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-225) and index.
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NQ759.20903/6
Record Identifier
74VK3gNP7AqO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3gNP7AqO
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ISBN
0874139856 (alk. paper)
9780874139853 (alk. paper)
DDC
759.209033
MMS ID
991023827719702626
