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Art, power, and modernity : English art institutions, 1750-1950 /

Hwo did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernisation of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fyfe, Gordon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Leicester University Press, ©2000.
Colección:Contemporary issues in museum culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Hwo did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernisation of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism of engravers and how their claim to be artists is an important and negkected aspect of the nineteenth-century art world; and how the aesthetic dispute over the Chantrey Bequest epitomized conflicts of taste, cultural independence, and interdependence between opposed art institutions and the Treasury.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
ISBN:9780567151988
0567151980