Main entry:

Hemingway, Andrew.

Title & Author:

Landscape imagery and urban culture in early nineteenth-century Britain / Andrew Hemingway.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Description:

xix, 363 pages, 56 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's doctoral thesis at University College, London.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-355) and index.
List of plates -- List of maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Art as seen (starting p. 1) -- 2 Ideology and naturalism (starting p. 8) -- (i) Aims and approach (starting p. 8) -- (ii) Ideology (starting p. 12) -- (iii) Naturalism and style (starting p. 15) -- (iv) Naturalism and the picturesque (starting p. 19) -- (v) Naturalism and meaning (starting p. 26) -- 3 Artists in British society 1829-1830 (starting p. 29) -- (i) Politics and class consciousness (starting p. 29) -- (ii) Artistic 'autonomy', patronage, and the market (starting p. 34) -- 4 Philosophical criticism's man of taste (starting p. 48) -- 5 Philosophical criticism and the science of landscape (starting p. 62) -- (i) The man of taste in the country -- a universe of signs (starting p. 62) -- (ii) Seeing the picturesque (starting p. 67) -- (iii) The pleasures of the city -- an inversion (starting p. 72) -- (iv) The landscape painter's science of signs (starting p. 75) -- 6 Naturalism and the academic ideal (starting p. 79) -- (i) Academic theory and philosophical criticism (starting p. 79) -- (ii) Landscape painting in academic theory (starting p. 86) -- (iii) Society and the artist in academic theory (starting p. 89) -- (iv) Modifications in academic discourse (starting p. 93) -- 7 Art criticism and the politics of landscape (starting p. 105) -- (i) The metropolitan press (starting p. 105) -- (ii) Art criticism as cultural critique (starting p. 109) -- (iii) The functions of naturalism (starting p. 149) -- 8 The imagery of seaside resorts and modern leisure (starting p. 155) -- (i) Attitudes towards resort development (starting p. 156) -- (ii) The imagery of prints (starting p. 163) -- (iii) Early oil paintings and water-colours (starting p. 168) -- (iv) Imagery of Hastings (starting p. 171) -- (v) Constable, Turner, and Brighton (starting p. 181) -- (vi) Norwich artists and Great Yarmouth (starting p. 196) -- (vii) Conclusions (starting p. 214) -- 9 The contradictions of progress: imagery of rivers (starting p. 216) -- (i) The symbolism of rivers (starting p. 216) -- (ii) Histories, topographies, and prints (starting p. 219) -- (iii) Turner's Thames Series (starting p. 224) -- (iv) Constable's Stour paintings (starting p. 245) -- (v) The imagery of the Norfolk rivers (starting p. 257) -- (vi) Constructing social harmony: regattas and water frolics (starting p. 277) -- (vii) Conclusions (starting p. 291) -- Conclusion: The passing of naturalism (starting p. 292) -- Notes (starting p. 301) -- Bibliography (starting p. 345) -- Index (starting p. 356).
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ISBN:

0521391180 (hardback)
9780521391184 (hardback)

Subject:

Landscape painting, British 19th century.
Naturalism in art.
City and town life in art.
Peinture de paysages britannique 19e siècle.
Naturalisme dans l'art.
Vie urbaine dans l'art.
Landscape painting, British
Gesellschaft
Kultur
Land
Landschaftsmalerei
Malerei
Stadt
Ästhetik
Esthétique Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Peinture de paysages Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Naturalisme (art)
Vie urbaine Dans l'art.
Art Aspect social Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Geschichte (1795-1835)
Geschichte (1800-1830)
Großbritannien
Londres (G.B.) dans l'art.
Paintings Special subjects Landscapes History
Great Britain

Form/genre:

dissertations.
Academic theses
Thèses et écrits académiques.

Added entries:

England Cambridgeshire Cambridge.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 73791
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:92-B1835
Status: Available