The King's artists : the Royal Academy of Arts and the politics of British culture, 1760-1840 / Holg...
The King's artists : the Royal Academy of Arts and the politics of British culture, 1760-1840 / Holg...
The King's artists : the Royal Academy of Arts and the politics of British culture, 1760-1840 / Holger Hoock.
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Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N707.141/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
I. Academies of Art -- 1. Institutional history -- 2. Promoting a national school -- 3. Modelling Academies for the British School -- 4. The cosmopolitan outlook of a national academy -- II. The Politicization of Art -- 5. George III and the artists -- 6. French Revolutions in the Royal Academy? --...
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Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2003.
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Summary
"This is story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the British Isles and North America. This is the first study of its early years, re-evaluating the Acad...
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The King's artists : the Royal Academy of Arts and the politics of British culture, 1760-1840 / Holger Hoock.
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Oxford historical monographs.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N707.141/1
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74Vv5oBpPvOM
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0199266263 :
9780199266265 (hb)
0199266263 (hb)
9780199266265
0199266263
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708.21
707.141
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991017785019702626
