Bodybuilding: Reforming Masculinities in British Art 1750-1810 (The Association of Human Rights Institutes series) - Hardcover

Myrone, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300110057 ISBN 13: 9780300110050

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2005

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Reseña del editor:

This original book explores the radical transformation of the heroic male body in late eighteenth-century British art. It ranges across a period in which a modern art world was established, taking into account the lives and careers of a succession of major figures-from Benjamin West and Gavin Hamilton to Henry Fuseli, John Flaxman and William Blake-and influential institutions, from the Royal Academy to the commercial galleries of the 1790s.Organized around the historical traumas of the Seven Years' War (1756-63), the War of American Independence (1775-83) and the French Revolution and Revolutionary Wars (1789-1815), Bodybuilding places the visual representation of the hero at the heart of a series of narratives about social and economic change, gender identity, and the transformation of cultural value on the eve of modernity. The book offers a vivid image of a critical period in Britain's cultural history and establishes a new framework for the study of late-eighteenth-century art and gender.

Biografía del autor:

Martin Myrone is curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art at Tate Britain, London.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300110057
• ISBN 13: 9780300110050
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352