Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England

Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England PDF Author: Hanns Hammelmann
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Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England

Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England PDF Author: Hanns Hammelmann
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Pages : 120

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Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England

Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England PDF Author: Hanns Hammelmann
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Category : Illustration of books
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England

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Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century

Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century PDF Author: Christina Ionescu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443873098
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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Hitherto relegated to the closets of art history and literary studies, book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. The chapters of this collection offer only a glimpse of where a complete reconfiguration of the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts might ultimately take us. The use of the gerund of the verb “to reconfigure” in the subtitle of this collection, instead of the corresponding noun, underlines the work-in-progress character of this interdisciplinary endeavour, which aims above all to discern new vistas while charting or revisiting landmarks in the rich field of eighteenth-century book illustration. The specific interpretive lenses through which contributors to this collection re-evaluate the visual periphery of the text cover an array of disciplines and areas of interest; among these, the most prominent are book history and print culture, art history and image theory, material and visual culture, word and image interaction, feminist theory and gender studies, history of medicine and technology. This spectrum could have been even less restrictive and more colourful if it were not for pragmatic and editorial considerations. Nonetheless, its plurality of vision provides a framework for an inclusive and multifaceted approach to eighteenth-century book illustration. Perhaps these essays are most valuable in the practical models they provide on how to tackle the interdisciplinary challenge that is the study of the eighteenth-century illustrated book. The collection as such is the first formal step in an effort to rethink or reconfigure the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts. It has become clear that the study of the illustrated book of the Age of Enlightenment has the potential of yielding multiple findings, perspectives and discourses about a society immersed in visual culture, skilled in visual communication and reflected in the visual legacy it left behind.

Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England; Ed. and Completed by T.S.R. Boase

Book Illustrators in Eighteenth-century England; Ed. and Completed by T.S.R. Boase PDF Author: Hanns Andreas Hammelmann
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Languages : en
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Eighteenth-century Book Illustrations

Eighteenth-century Book Illustrations PDF Author: Philip Hofer
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Category : Illustration of books
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Book Illustrations in Eighteenth-century England

Book Illustrations in Eighteenth-century England PDF Author: Hanns Hammelmann
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Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books

Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books PDF Author: J. Lewine
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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Eighteenth-century Women Artists

Eighteenth-century Women Artists PDF Author: Caroline Chapman
Publisher: Unicorn
ISBN: 9781910787502
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The eighteenth century was an age when not only the aristocracy but a burgeoning middle class could enjoy a remarkable flowering of the arts. But it was a man's world; any woman who wished to succeed as an artist had to overcome numerous obstacles. In a society in which women were required to marry, reproduce, and conform to rigid social conventions a professional artist risked becoming an object of gossip and hostility. Nevertheless, for a woman who had charm and good looks, was ambitious, and allied talent with hard work, success was attainable. This book examines the careers and working lives of celebrated artists like Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun but also of those who are now forgotten. As well as assessing the work itself - from history and genre painting to portraits - it considers artists' studios, the functioning of the print market, how art was sold, the role of patrons and the flourishing world of the lady amateur. It is enriched by up to 55 illustrations in glorious colour.

Dilettanti

Dilettanti PDF Author: Bruce Redford
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.