Title: Painting out of the ordinary : modernity and the art of everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain /
Authors: Solkin, David H.; Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Genre painting, British; Art and society Great Britain History
Abstract: With its plethora of illustrations, many of works published here for the first time, 'Painting Out of the Ordinary' will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in British art and society of the Romantic era.
Contents: Introduction. New adventures in time and space -- Village politics -- 1809: The epic of common life -- Arcadia lost -- The art of discipline -- The colonisation of carnival -- The end of olde England -- Epilogue. The rural and the modern.