| Title:
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A COMPANION TO BRITISH ART
1600 TO THE PRESENT |
| By: |
Dana Arnold (Editor), Professor David Peters Corbett (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1405136294 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781405136297 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
15 February, 2013 |
| Series: |
Blackwell Companions to Art History 1 |
| Pages: |
588 |
| Description: |
Over the last two decades, British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study. |
| Synopsis: |
This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history. * A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British art * Combines original research with a survey of existing scholarship and the state of the field * Touches on the whole of the history of British art, from 800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after 1500 * Provides the first comprehensive introduction to British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study * Presents in depth the major preoccupations that have emerged from recent scholarship, including aesthetics, gender, British art s relationship to Modernity, nationhood and nationality, and the institutions of the British art world |
| Illustrations: |
ill |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |