Title & Author:

Prospects for the nation : recent essays in British landscape, 1750-1880 / edited by Michael Rosenthal, Christiana Payne, and Scott Wilcox.

Publication:

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.

Series:

Studies in British art ; 4

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

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.

ISBN:

0300063830
9780300063837

Subject:

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
Cotman, John Sell, 1782-1842.
Landscape painting, British 18th century.
Landscape painting, British 19th century.
Nationalism in art.
Peinture de paysages britannique 18e siècle.
Peinture de paysages britannique 19e siècle.
Nationalisme dans l'art.
Landscape painting, British
Landschapschilderkunst.
Motieven (kunst)
Landscape painting, English.
Landscape painting 18th century Great Britain.
Landscape painting 19th century Great Britain.
Peinture de paysages Grande-Bretagne 18e siècle.
Peinture de paysages Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Great Britain In art.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Art

Added entries:

Rosenthal, Michael.
Payne, Christiana.
Wilcox, Scott, 1952-
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
Yale Center for British Art.
Studies in British art ; 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191817
Call No.: ID ND1354.5.P76; ID:97-B2833
Status: Available