The British School of Sculpture, C.1760-1832

ISBN-13: 9780367787240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 262 str.

Jason Edwards; Sarah Burnage

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The British School of Sculpture is the first essay collection examining the rich array of sculpture produced and exhibited in Britain between 1768 and 1837. Featuring nearly 60 illustrations, many never reproduced before, and combining essays from leading scholars in the field with exciting new voices, the volume challenges the notion that neoclass

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Jason Edwards, ‘Introduction: Sculpture Victorious, or, The British School, .c1760-1832?’

2 Sarah Burnage, ‘Introduction: The British School of Sculpture – A Case Study’.

3 Joan Coutu, ‘Sculpture and the Forming of National Tastes in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century’.

4 Matthew Craske, ‘Extracting the Meaning of a Pile of Pancakes: An Analysis of Nicholas Read’s Monument to Admiral Tyrrel (1766-1770)’.

5 Sarah Burnage, ‘“Delighting the Common People”: John Bacon’s Monuments to the Earl of Chatham (1778-1784)’.

6 Tomas Macsotay, ‘Artistic Labour and Cosmopolitan Sociability: British Sculptors in Accounts from Late Eighteenth-Century Visitors to Rome’.

7 Roberto Ferrari, ‘Before Rome: John Gibson and the British School of Art’.

8.  Martin Myrone: ‘“The Chatterton of Sculpture”: Thomas Procter and the Limits of the British School’.

9 Eleanor Hughes, ‘Smoke and Marble: Thomas Banks’s Monument to Captain George Blagdon Westcott’.

10 Jason Edwards, ‘John Charles Felix Rossi’s Cornwallis Monument (1807-1811) and the Colonial Cosmopolitanism of the British School’.

11 M.G. Sullivan, ‘Cunningham, Chantrey, and the British School of Sculpture’.

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O autorze

Sarah Burnage is an independent art historian and curator.

Jason Edwards is Professor of Art History at the University of York.