Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836
Solkin, David H. (Ed)
Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 - New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2001
Includes a folded re-creation of the historic hang in the Great Room, Courtauld Institute Gallery.
Introduction: 'This Great Mart of Genius'"" The Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 / David H. Solkin -- Architecture and experience: The visitor and the spaces of Somerset House, 1780-1796 / John Murdoch -- Staging the spectacle / John Sunderland and David H. Solkin -- 'A Shilling well laid out': The Royal Academy's early public / C.S. Matheson -- 'Stare Cases' Engendering the public's two bodies at the Royal Academy of Arts / K. Dian Kriz --'The Business of Criticism': The press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in eighteenth-c'entury London / Mark Hallett -- The sublime as spectacle : The transformation of Ideal Art at Somerset House / Martin Myrone -- 'Portrait! Portrait!! Portrait!!!' / Marcia Pointon -- The spectacle of the muse : Exhibiting the Actress at the Royal Academy / Gill Perry -- Landscape-O-Rama: The exhibition landscape at Somerset House and the rise of popular landscape entertainments / Ann Bermingham -- Turner fires a gun / Michael Rosenthal -- Crowds and connoisseurs: looking at genre painting at Somerset House / David H. Solkin -- Art in the dark: viewing and exhibiting sculpture at Somerset House / Alison yarrington -- Watercolourists and watercolours at the royal Academy, 1780-1836 / Greg Smith -- Exhibiting architecture: strategies of representation in English architectural exhibition drawings, 1760-1836 / Nicholas Savage -- Printmakers and the Royal Academy Exhibitions, 1780-1836 / Sarah Hyde -- Foreign exhibitors and the British School at the Royal Academy, 1768-1823 / Anne Puetz -- Taste and the multitude: The Somerset House Exhibitions in continental eyes / William Vaughan.
Includes bibliographical references and index. On May 1, 1780, England's Royal Academy of Arts opened its twelfth annual exhibition, the first to be held in Somerset House. For the next fifty-seven years, the Great Room of Somerset House effectively defined the center of the London art world. Such great exhibition performers as Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner and David Wilkie sharpened their skills during these stimulating decades. In this extensively illustrated book, seventeen renowned experts revisit and assess the Somerset House years, a period of great achievement and central importance in the history of British art. The book's contributors view the Somerset House phenomenon from a broad range of perspectives. They deal with the physical nature of the exhibitions, the audience, the role of the press, the Royal Academy's place within the larger world of urban entertainments and how the conditions of display shaped and even transformed patterns of art production. In addition, they explore such topics as the tactics of exhibitors in different genres of painting, the exhibition histories of works in other media and the impact on foreign artists and observers of an increasingly self-confident national school of British art. 2021"
0300248091
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Somerset House (London, England)
Art and society--England--London
Art, British--18th century--Exhibitions
Art, British--19th century--Exhibitions
Art and society
Art, British
Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 - New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2001
Includes a folded re-creation of the historic hang in the Great Room, Courtauld Institute Gallery.
Introduction: 'This Great Mart of Genius'"" The Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 / David H. Solkin -- Architecture and experience: The visitor and the spaces of Somerset House, 1780-1796 / John Murdoch -- Staging the spectacle / John Sunderland and David H. Solkin -- 'A Shilling well laid out': The Royal Academy's early public / C.S. Matheson -- 'Stare Cases' Engendering the public's two bodies at the Royal Academy of Arts / K. Dian Kriz --'The Business of Criticism': The press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in eighteenth-c'entury London / Mark Hallett -- The sublime as spectacle : The transformation of Ideal Art at Somerset House / Martin Myrone -- 'Portrait! Portrait!! Portrait!!!' / Marcia Pointon -- The spectacle of the muse : Exhibiting the Actress at the Royal Academy / Gill Perry -- Landscape-O-Rama: The exhibition landscape at Somerset House and the rise of popular landscape entertainments / Ann Bermingham -- Turner fires a gun / Michael Rosenthal -- Crowds and connoisseurs: looking at genre painting at Somerset House / David H. Solkin -- Art in the dark: viewing and exhibiting sculpture at Somerset House / Alison yarrington -- Watercolourists and watercolours at the royal Academy, 1780-1836 / Greg Smith -- Exhibiting architecture: strategies of representation in English architectural exhibition drawings, 1760-1836 / Nicholas Savage -- Printmakers and the Royal Academy Exhibitions, 1780-1836 / Sarah Hyde -- Foreign exhibitors and the British School at the Royal Academy, 1768-1823 / Anne Puetz -- Taste and the multitude: The Somerset House Exhibitions in continental eyes / William Vaughan.
Includes bibliographical references and index. On May 1, 1780, England's Royal Academy of Arts opened its twelfth annual exhibition, the first to be held in Somerset House. For the next fifty-seven years, the Great Room of Somerset House effectively defined the center of the London art world. Such great exhibition performers as Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner and David Wilkie sharpened their skills during these stimulating decades. In this extensively illustrated book, seventeen renowned experts revisit and assess the Somerset House years, a period of great achievement and central importance in the history of British art. The book's contributors view the Somerset House phenomenon from a broad range of perspectives. They deal with the physical nature of the exhibitions, the audience, the role of the press, the Royal Academy's place within the larger world of urban entertainments and how the conditions of display shaped and even transformed patterns of art production. In addition, they explore such topics as the tactics of exhibitors in different genres of painting, the exhibition histories of works in other media and the impact on foreign artists and observers of an increasingly self-confident national school of British art. 2021"
0300248091
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Somerset House (London, England)
Art and society--England--London
Art, British--18th century--Exhibitions
Art, British--19th century--Exhibitions
Art and society
Art, British