{"product_id":"a-companion-to-british-art-isbn-9781119170112","title":"A Companion to British Art","description":"This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British art\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines original research with a survey of existing scholarship and the state of the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTouches on the whole of the history of British art, from 800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after 1500\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides the first comprehensive introduction to British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents in depth the major preoccupations that have emerged from recent scholarship, including aesthetics, gender, British art’s relationship to Modernity, nationhood and nationality, and the institutions of the British art world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Editors’ Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 General 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The “Englishness” of English Art Theory 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark A. Cheetham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Modernity and the British 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Ballantyne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 English Art and Principled Aesthetics 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanet Wolff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Institutions 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 “Those Wilder Sorts of Painting”: the Painted Interior in the Age of Antonio Verrio 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Johns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Nineteenth-Century Art Institutions and Academies 105\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eColin Trodd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Crossing the Boundary: British Art across Victorianism and Modernism 131\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Peters Corbett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 British Pop Art and the High\/Low Divide 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Faulkner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 When Attitudes Became Formless: Art and Antagonism in the 1960s 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJo Applin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Nationhood 199\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Art and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCynthia Roman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 International Exhibitions: Linking Culture, Commerce, and Nation 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulie F. Codell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Itinerant Surrealism: British Surrealism either side of the Second World War 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen Highmore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 55° North 3° West: a Panorama from Scotland 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Normand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Retrieving, Remapping, and Rewriting Histories of British Art: Lubaina Humid’s “Revenge” 289\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDorothy Rowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 5 Landscape 315\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Defining, Shaping, and Picturing Landscape in the Nineteenth Century 317\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Helmreich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Theories of the Picturesque 351\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Charlesworth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Landscape into Art: Painting and Place-Making in England, c.1760–1830 373\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Williamson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Landscape Painting, c.1770–1840 397\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSam Smiles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Landscape and National Identity: the Phoenix Park Dublin 422\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDana Arnold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 6 Men and Women 449\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The Elizabethan Miniature 451\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDympna Callaghan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 “The Crown and Glory of a Woman”: Female Chastity in Eighteenth-Century British Art 473\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKate Retford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Serial Portraiture and the Death of Man in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain 502\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhitney Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Virtue, Vice, Gossip, and Sex: Narratives of Gender in Victorian and Edwardian Painting 532\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePamela M. Fletcher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 552\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Arnold\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Middlesex University, UK. She has published several books on British architecture and visual culture and is author of the best selling Art History: A Very Short Introduction (2004). She is series editor of \u003ci\u003eNew Interventions in Art History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWiley-Blackwell Companions to Art History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBlackwell Anthologies in Art History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Peters Corbett\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History of Art at the University of East Anglia. He has published a number of books, and has received prizes from the Historians of British Art, College Art Association USA, and a \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e book of the year award. He is the editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eArt History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver the last two decades, British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study. In response to this surge of interest in the field, this collection of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provides a comprehensive introduction to British art history, from 1600 to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is organized thematically to present in depth the major preoccupations that have emerged from recent scholarship in British Art. 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