Painting Out of the Ordinary: Modernity and the Art of Everday Life in Early Nineteenth-Century England - Rilegato

Solkin, David H.

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ISBN 10: 0300140614 ISBN 13: 9780300140613

Casa editrice: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies, 2008

Riassunto

At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, a new generation of painters led by the precociously talented David Wilkie took London's art world by storm. Their novel approach to the depiction of everyday life marked the beginning a trajectory that links the art of the Age of Revolution with the postmodern culture of today.

What emerged from the imagery of Wilkie and other early 19th-century British genre paintersamong them William Mulready, Edward Bird, and the controversial watercolorist Thomas Heaphywas a sense that common people were increasingly bound up with the exceptional events of history, that traditional boundaries between country and city were melting away, and that a more regularized and dynamic present was everywhere encroaching upon the customary patterns of the past.

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L'autore:

David H. Solkin is professor of the social history of art, Courtauld Institute of Art. He is the author ofPainting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England and editor ofArt on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 17801836, both published by Yale.

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Book by Solkin David H

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• Editore: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0300140614
• ISBN 13: 9780300140613
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 270