Art & visual culture, 1600-1850
Subtitle: academy to avant-garde
By: edited by Emma Barker
Series: Art & visual culture; Art & visual culture
Publisher: Tate Publishing in association with the Open University; Tate Publishing, Limited
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781849760966; 9781849761093
Subjects: European Art
Other titles: Art and visual culture, 1600-1850 :
Description: "The second of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. 1600-1850 Academy to Avant-Garde interrogates labels used in standard histories of the art of this period (Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Classicism and Romanticism) and examines both established and recent art-historical methodologies, including formalism, iconology, spectatorship and reception, identity and difference. Key topics, including Baroque Rome , Dutch Painting of the Golden Age , Georgian London , the Paris Salon , and the impact of the discovery of the South Pacific."--Wheelers.co.nz.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Emma Barker; title: 1. City and country 1660-1760; title: Bernini and Baroque Rome / Carol M. Richardson; title: Meaning and interpretation: Dutch painting of the golden age / Jason Gaiger; title: The metropolitan urban renaissance: London 1660-1760 / Elizabeth McKellar; title: The English landscape garden 1680-1760 / Susie West; title: 2. New worlds of art 1760-1850; title: Painting for the public / Emma Barker; title: Canova, Neo-classicism and the sculpted body / Linda Walsh; title: The other side of the world / Paul Wood; title: Inventing the Romantic artist / Emma Barker.