Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The 'Englishness' of English Art Theory Since the Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781138254534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str.

Mark A. Cheetham

Opis

Arguing in favour of a critical return to the 'nation' as a category, this study provides the first sustained account of artwriting in the British context over the full extent of its development from the eighteenth century to the present day. Mark A. Cheetham asks whether 'English' traditions of artwriting have been judged inappropriately according to imported criteria-and demonstrates that 'English Art Theory' is not an oxymoron.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Artwriting and national identity (or, no theory please, we're English); Englishness, foreignness, and Empire in British artwriting, c. 1700-1900; Indigenes, imports, and exports: Englishness in artwriting from modernism to the 21st century; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Mark A. Cheetham is a professor of art history at the University of Toronto. He is the author of eight books on modern and contemporary art and has won several international awards.