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Author : Derek Hudson,Kenneth W. Luckhurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:463283479
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1435549120
Author : Holger Hoock
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0191556106
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. This is 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 politicization of 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 an age of war, revolution, and reform.
Author : Ileana Baird
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443871358
In an attempt to better account for the impressive diversity of positions and relations that characterizes the eighteenth-century world, this collection proposes a new methodological frame, one that is less hierarchical in approach and more focused, instead, on the nature of these interactions, on their Addisonian “usefulness,” declared goals, and (un)intended results. By shifting focus from a cultural-historicist approach to sociability to the rhizomatic nature of eighteenth-century associations, this collection approaches them through new methodological lenses that include social network analysis, assemblage and graph theory, social media and digital humanities scholarship. Imagining the eighteenth-century world as a networked community rather than a competing one reflects a recent interest in novel forms of social interaction facilitated by new social media—from Internet forums to various types of social networking sites—and also signals the increasing involvement of academic communities in digital humanities projects that use new technologies to map out patterns of intellectual exchange. As such, the articles included in this collection demonstrate the benefits of applying interdisciplinary approaches to eighteenth-century sociability, and their role in shedding new light on the way public opinion was formed and ideas disseminated during pre-modern times. The issues addressed by our contributors are of paramount importance for understanding the eighteenth-century culture of sociability. They address, among other things, clubbing practices and social networking strategies (political, cultural, gender-based) in the eighteenth-century world, the role of clubs and other associations in “improving” knowledge and behaviors, conflicting views on publicity, literary and political alliances and their importance for an emerging celebrity culture, the role of cross-national networks in launching pan-European and transatlantic trends, Romantic modes of sociability, as well as the contribution of voluntary associations (clubs, literary salons, communities of readers, etc.) to the formation of the public sphere. This collection demonstrates how relevant social networking strategies were to the context of the eighteenth-century world, and how similar they are to the congeries of new practices shaping the digital public sphere of today.
Author : Anton Howes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691207612
"For almost 300 years, an organisation has quietly tried to change almost every aspect of life in Britain. That organisation is the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, often known simply as the Royal Society of Arts. It has acted as Britain's private national improvement agency, in every way imaginable - essentially, a society for the improvement of everything and anything. This book is its history. From its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Society has tried to change Britain's art, industry, laws, music, environment, education, and even culture. It has sometimes even succeeded. It has been a prize-fund for innovations, a platform for Victorian utilitarian reformers, a convenor of disparate interest groups, and the focal point for social movements. There has never been an organisation quite like it, constantly having to reinvent itself to find something new to improve. The book rewrites many of the old official histories of the Society and updates them to the present day, incorporating over half a century of further research into the periods they covered, along with new insights into the organisation's evolution. The book reveals the hidden and often surprising history of how a few public-spirited people tried to make their country better, offering lessons from their triumphs and their failures for all would-be reformers today"--
Author : Albert Edward Musson,Eric Robinson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 2881243827
Concentrating on the Industrial Revolution as experienced in Great Britain (and, within that sphere, mainly on the early development of the engineering and chemical industries), the authors develop the thesis that the interaction between theorists and men of practical affairs was much closer, more complex and more consequential than some historians of science have held it to be. Deeply researched, gracefully argued and fully documented. First published in 1969, and established now as a "classic" in the field, the present edition has a new foreword by Margaret C. Jacob. (NW) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Tom Dunne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351561822
Bringing into relief the singularity of Barry's unswerving commitment to his vision for history painting despite adverse cultural, political and commercial currents, these essays on Barry and his contemporaries offer new perspectives on the painter's life and career. Contributors, including some of the best known experts in the field of British eighteenth-century studies, set Barry's works and writings into a rich political and social context, particularly in Britain. Among other notable achievements, the essays shed new light on the influence which Barry's radical ideology and his Catholicism had on his art; they explore his relationship with Reynolds and Blake, and discuss his aesthetics in the context of Burke and Wollstonecraft as well as Fuseli and Payne Knight. The volume is an indispensable resource for scholars of eighteenth-century British painting, patronage, aesthetics, and political history.
Author : Elizabeth Eger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521771064
An international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere.
Author : Nicola Jane Phillips
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 184383183X
A reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the `long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought.
Author : K. Stapelbroek,J. Marjanen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137265258
This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform movement in the eighteenth century. Its fourteen contributions demonstrate the intellectual horizons and international networks of this widespread and influential phenomenon.
Author : Linda Colley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300152807
Linda Colley's comprehensive study of national identity is a major work that contributes to our understanding of Britain's past and to the growing debate about the shape and survival of Britain and its institutions in the future.
Author : Kerry Bristol
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781291916454
This pamphlet describes James 'Athenian' Stuart's involvement in medal design in the 18th century.
Author : Raymond Phineas Stearns
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Science
ISBN : 0252001206
Author : Matthew C. Hunter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780226390253
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 : Susan Bennett
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0934223963
This book contains a series of essays on different aspects of Irish painter James Barry's monumental cycle of paintings 'The Progress of Human Knowledge', in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts. Barry's work is debated in the context of wider issues such as nationalism and improvement and publicity and patronage.