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Burning bright : essays in honour of David Bindman /
This book celebrates the work and career of the internationally renowned art historian, David Bindman, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and is above all a tribute to him from his former students and colleagues. With essays on sculpture, drawings, watercolours and prints, the volume reflects the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Open Access e-Books
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword celebrating David Bindman / Caroline Elam
- Part 1. Sculpture. Introduction: carving a niche in sculptural history / Tessa Murdoch
- Netherlandish allegories of madness in English perspective / Léon E. Lock
- Michael Rysbrack's sculpture series for Queen Caroline's Library at St. James's Palace / Joanna Marschner
- Roubiliac's Hogarth and the playful portrait bust / Malcolm Baker
- Spinning the thread of life: the three Fates, time and eternity / Tessa Murdoch
- Collecting a canon: the Earl of Northumberland at Northumberland House and Syon House / Joan Coutu
- Eccentric pioneers? Patrons of modern sculpture for Britain c.1790 / Julius Bryant
- Canova and Thorvaldsen at Chatsworth / Alison Yarrington
- William Wyon as a pupil and follower of Flaxman / Mark Jones.
- Part II. Drawing, watercolours & paintings. Introduction: 'A close inspection' of British paintings and drawings 'within the context of their own time' / Kim Sloan
- 'The gipsey-race my pity rarely move'? Representing the Gypsy in George Morland's Morning, or the Benevolent Sportsman / Nick Grindle
- The face of Saartjie Baartman: Rowlandson, race and the 'Hottentot Venus' / Alison E. Wright
- Blake, Linnell and Varley and A treatise on Zodiacal Physiognomy / Martin Butlin
- William Blake's sodomites / Martin Myrone
- Edward Harding and Queen Charlotte / Jane Roberts
- John Everett Millais, James Wyatt of Oxford and a volume of Retzsch's Outlines to Shakespeare: a missing link / Stephen Calloway
- An aesthetic sitter on an Empire sofa: William Blake Richmond's portrait of Mrs Luke Ionides / Mark Evans
- 'A dose of Paradise': some effects of Renaissance drawings on Victorian artists / Susan Owens.
- Part III. Prints. Introduction. A fine line: collecting, communication and the printed image / Diana Dethloff
- 'i will not alter an iota for any mans opinion upon earth': James Gillray's portraits of William Pitt the younger / Simon Turner
- Amorous antiquaries: sculpture and seduction in Rowlandson's erotica / Danielle Thom
- Infernal machines in nineteenth-century France / Richard Taws
- Wood-engravings from the collection of Francis Douce at the Ashmolean Museum / Mercedes Cerón
- 'The human element': the contribution of C.R.W. Nevinson and Eric Kennington to the Britain's Efforts and Ideals lithographic project of 1917 / Jonathan Black
- Idea and reality: Edvard Munch and the woodcut technique / Ute Kuhlemann Falck
- John Heartfield: a political artist's exile in London / Anna Schultz
- David Bindman's publications.