Painting Shakespeare : the artist as critic, 1720-1820 / Stuart Sillars.
Painting Shakespeare : the artist as critic, 1720-1820 / Stuart Sillars.
Painting Shakespeare : the artist as critic, 1720-1820 / Stuart Sillars.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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Y822.33/490
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Language
English
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Physical content
xviii, 337 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. Placing Shakespeare painting -- 2. Play, iconography and social discourse in Hogarth's Shakespeare -- 3. Landscape, readership and convention, 1740-90 -- 4. Fuseli and the uses of iconography -- 5. George Romney : meditations of a volatile fancy -- 6. 'Shakespeare in riper years gave me his hand'...
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2006.
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Summary
"Painting Shakespeare explores the tradition of critical and interpretive painting and engraving that developed when eighteenth-century artists rejected the depiction of Shakespeare's plays in performance to produce images based on the new scholarly editions."--BOOK JACKET.
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Painting Shakespeare : the artist as critic, 1720-1820 / Stuart Sillars.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-324) and index.
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Y822.33/490
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74VKvXKBod43
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKvXKBod43
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ISBN
9780521853088
0521853087
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822.33
MMS ID
991021561239702626
