Bodybuilding
Subtitle: reforming masculinities in British art 1750-1810
By: Martin Myrone.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Subjects: Masculinity in art.; Heroes in art.; Art, British -- 18th century.; Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Masculinity as cultural work in eighteenth-century Britain; value: 'Our arts may hope for new advances': the state of the arts, c.1755-1765; value: Reforming the hero: London in the early 1760s; value: Gavin Hamilton and Rome in the 1760s; value: James Barry in France and Italy; value: 'Over-stocked with artists of all sorts': the state of the arts, c.1765-1775; value: General Wolfe among the macaronis; value: Outlaw masculinity: John Hamilton Mortimer in the 1770s; value: Alexander Runciman in Rome and Edinburgh; value: Henry Fuseli and Thomas Banks in Rome; value: 'This weak, disjointed age': the state of the arts, c.1775-1785; value: The American war and the heroic image; value: Gothic romance and quixotic heroism: Fuseli in the 1780s; value: The male nude at the Royal Academy; value: 'Three young sculptors' of the 1790s; value: 'I never presum'd to class the painters': the state of the arts, c.1785-1800; value: Conclusion; value: Genius, madness and the fate of heroic art: Henry Fuseli and William Blake in the nineteenth century; value: Notes; value: Bibliography; value: Index.