Title: Fighting history
Description: 'Fighting History' engages with the story of British history painting and its survival into contemporary practice today. Illustrated with works from the Tate collection, as well as a number of paintings from other institutions and from practicing artists, the book traces the tradition of history painting from the baroque allegory of the 17th-century court to contemporary works by Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Deller, Michael Fullerton, and others.
Subjects: History painting, Exhibitions, English Narrative painting, History in art, 21.02 history of painting
Places: Great Britain