Prospects for the nation : recent essays in British landscape, 1750-1880 /

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Imprint:	New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art [and] the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press, ©1997.
Description:	vi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in British art ; 4 Studies in British art ; 4.
Subject:	Landscape painting, British -- 18th century. Landscape painting, British -- 19th century. Nationalism in art. Landscape painting, British. Nationalism in art. Great Britain -- In art. Great Britain. Art.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2793664

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Other authors / contributors:	Rosenthal, Michael. Payne, Christiana. Wilcox, Scott, 1952- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Yale Center for British Art.
ISBN:	0300063830 9780300063837
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	This fascinating book provides a picture of the changing state of British landscape studies. Art historians, historians, geographers, and literary. scholars discuss a wide range of topics: the role of landscape in the construction of a national identity; tourism and the politics of the picturesque; the relation of scientific observation to naturalistic landscape; and the depiction of rural labor. In so doing, they point up the extent to which scholarship has moved from concerns with individual artists to broader issues of representation and society.The authors challenge a number of orthodoxies in chapters that reconsider the role of women amateurs in landscape painting, recast the notion of John Sell Cotman's genius, explore the imaging of the nation, and examine the development of the history of watercolor painting. With essays by Maxine Berg, Stephen Copley, Stephen Daniels (with Susanne Seymour and Charles Watkins), Elizabeth Helsinger, Andrew Hemingway, Alun Howkins, Charlotte Klonk, Kay Dian Kriz, Anne Pullan, Kim Sloan, Sam Smiles, and the editors, the book is pluralistic in content and multidisciplinary in nature. It not only indicates where matters stand at the moment but suggests directions for future scholarship.

Table of Contents:

Land and national representation in Britain / Elizabeth K. Helsinger
The rough and the smooth : rural subjects in later-eighteenth-century art / Michael Rosenthal
"Calculated to gratify the patriot" : rustic figure studies in early-nineteenth-century Britain / Christiana Payne
Dressed to till : representational strategies in the depiction of rural labor, c. 1790-1830 / Sam Smiles
Land, locality, people, landscape : the nineteenth-century countryside / Alun Howkins
Representations of early industrial towns : Turner and his contemporaries / Maxine Berg
Gilpin on the Wye : tourists, Tintern Abbey, and the picturesque / Stephen Copley
Border country : the politics of the picturesque in the Middle Wye Valley : Stephen Daniels, Susanne Seymour, and Charles Watkins
The constituents of Romantic genius : John Sell Cotman's great drawings / Andrew Hemingway
From picturesque travel to scientific observation : artists' and geologists' voyages to Staffa / Charlotte Klonk
Dido versus the pirates : Turner's Carthaginian paintings and the sublimation of colonial desire / Kay Dian Kriz
For publicity and profit / Ann Pullan
Industry from idleness? The rise of the amateur in the eighteenth century / Kim Sloan
Looking backward : Victorian perspectives on the Romantic landscape watercolor / Scott Wilcox.

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