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Title: THE KING'S ARTISTS
THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND THE POLITICS OF BRITISH CULTURE 1760-1840
By: Holger Hoock
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199266263
ISBN 13: 9780199266265
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 13 November, 2003
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
Pages: 388
Description: This is the first scholarly history of Britain's dominant fine art institution from its foundation in 1768 to the beginning of the Victorian age. Holger Hoock places the Royal Academy of Arts in the contexts of the metropolitan, British, and European art worlds and explores its influence on the notion of a national school of art. The story of the Academy in these early years illuminates the complex relationships between art and politics, and allows Hoock to explorethe concepts and practices of professionalization, cultural patriotism, and royal and state patronage of the arts in an age of war, revolution, and reform.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: numerous halftones
Publication: UK
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Prizes: Winner of Awarded the Proxime accessit for the Whitfield Prize 2003.
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