Bodybuilding Reforming Masculinities in British Art 1750-1810
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780300110050 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press |
Imprint: | Yale University Press |
Pub date: | 06 Jan 2006 |
DEWEY: | 704.9423094109033 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 384 |
Weight: | 1532g |
Height: | 203mm |
Width: | 264mm |
Spine width: | 29mm |