Title & Author:

Academies, museums, and canons of art / edited by Gill Perry and Colin Cunningham.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 1999.

Description:

268 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Art and its histories ; bk. 1

Notes:
Series numbering taken from book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Case study 1. The Arcadian shepherds : a painting by Poussin / Emma Barker -- Case study 2. The Parthenon marbles / Colin Cunningham -- Case study 3. Charles Le Brun, "art dictator of France" / Linda Walsh -- Case study 4. "Mere face painters?" : Hogarth, Reynolds and ideas of academic art in eighteenth-century Britain / Gill Perry -- Case study 5. Academic into modern : Turner and Leighton / Emma Barker -- Case study 6. The Albert Memorial / Colin Cunningham -- Case study 7. The National Gallery's first 50 years : "cut the cloth to suit the purse" / Anabel Thomas -- Case study 8. Art in the provinces / Emma Barker and Colin Cunningham.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This is the first of six books in the series Art and its Histories, which form the main texts of an Open University second-level course of the same name"--Preface.

ISBN:

0300077416 (h/b)
9780300077414 (h/b)
(p/b)
0300077430
9780300077438
0300077432

Subject:

Art Historiography.
Art Historiographie.
Beeldende kunsten.
Kunstonderwijs.
Musea.
Maatstaven.
Chefs-d'oeuvre (art)

Added entries:

Perry, Gillian, editor.
Cunningham, Colin, editor.
Perry, Gillian
Cunningham, Colin
Art and its histories ; bk. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204801
Call No.: N7480 .A27 1999
Status: Available