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Loading... The King's Artists: The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840 (Oxford Historical Monographs)by Holger Hoock
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This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the British Isles and North America. Thisis the first study of its early years, re-evaluating the Academy's significance in national cultural life and its profile in an international context. Holger Hoock reassesses royal and state patronage of the arts and explores the concepts and practices of cultural patriotism and the politicizationof art during the American and French Revolutions. By demonstrating how the Academy shaped the notions of an English and British school of art and influenced the emergence of the British cultural state, he illuminates the politics of national culture and the character of British public life in anage of war, revolution, and reform. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)708.21The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts Galleries, museums, private collections of fine and decorative arts British Isles / England London GalleriesLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |