Author: Algernon Graves
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 483

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Author: Algernon Graves
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Algernon Graves
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: Richard Wendorf
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067480967X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Sir Joshua Reynolds explores the ways in which portrait-painting is embedded in the social fabric of a given culture as well as in the social and professional transaction between the artist and his or her subject. In addition to providing a new view of Reynolds, Wendorf's book develops a thoroughly new way of interpreting portraiture.

Author: Joseph Farington
Publisher:
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Author: Frederic George Stephens
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385315018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1877527327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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In the past, the distinctions between art and science weren't as clear-cut as they are today, and philosophers, researchers, and artists often shared insights and ideas. It was in that heady atmosphere that Sir Joshua Reynolds first rose to prominence, initially through his "Grand Style" paintings, but later for his work as a promoter of scientific research and the president and co-founder of the famed Royal Society. This text outlines some of Reynolds' most groundbreaking ideas about art, scholarship, and the intersection between the two.

Author: Matthew C. Hunter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639039X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility became central to the ambitious paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, premier portraitist and first president of Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. Valued by some critics for changing in time (and thus, for prompting intellectual reflection on the nature of time), Reynolds’s unstable chemistry also prompted new techniques of chemical replication among Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and other leading industrialists. In turn, those replicas of chemically decaying academic paintings were rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century and claimed as origin points in the history of photography. Tracing the long arc of chemically produced and reproduced art from the 1670s through the 1860s, the book reconsiders early photography by situating it in relationship to Reynolds’s replicated paintings and the literal engines of British industry. By following the chemicals, Painting with Fire remaps familiar stories about academic painting and pictorial experiment amid the industrialization of chemical knowledge.

Author: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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