Familiar narratives about the nature of English modernism, "tradition," and "periodization," together with the "literary" character of English art from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, are abandoned in this innovative and important book. In their stead, David Peters Corbett proposes a new way of looking at this painting from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Vorticists.
Arguing that art history has been too reluctant to confront the fundamental question of how and what the consistency and application of paint signifies, Corbett investigates the work of English...
Familiar narratives about the nature of English modernism, "tradition," and "periodization," together with the "literary" character of English art ...
Familiar narratives about the nature of English modernism, "tradition," and "periodization," together with the "literary" character of English art from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, are abandoned in this innovative and important book. In their stead, David Peters Corbett proposes a new way of looking at this painting from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Vorticists.
Arguing that art history has been too reluctant to confront the fundamental question of how and what the consistency and application of paint signifies, Corbett investigates the work of English...
Familiar narratives about the nature of English modernism, "tradition," and "periodization," together with the "literary" character of English art ...
For the first time, a set of distinguished American and British art historians consider the complex history of Anglo-American relations from the colonial period through to the 1960s
Features a transatlantic group of scholars considering the impact of this relationship on the history of art in both nations
Offers a set of new approaches, and much new material relating to the history of British and American art
Situates the history of British and American art in the context of recent scholarship, offering a new reading of this key artistic interaction
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For the first time, a set of distinguished American and British art historians consider the complex history of Anglo-American relations from the colon...
