Henry Fuseli (British Artists) by Martin Myrone

Henry Fuseli (British Artists) by Martin Myrone

Henry Fuseli's work has always been the subject of speculation, gossip and fantasy, from the rumours of his opium addiction and his predilection for eating raw pork, to modern views of him variously as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism, a Romantic before his time, or an aberrant individualist pre-empting the innovations of Surrealism. This title offers an interpretation of the artist, placing him firmly in the context of a period of traumatic social, cultural and political revolution. A series of thematic chapters explore the successive phases of his career, from his early work in London, to his old age, the period of his greatest professional success when he exerted a profound influence on a whole generation of younger British artists.

Martin Myrone is a Curator at Tate Britain, specialising in eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century British art. His publications include Body Building: British Historical Artists in London and Rome and the Remaking of the Heroic Ideal c.1760-1800 (Courtauld Institute 1998) and Representing Britain 1500-2000, he is co-editor of Producing the Past (Ashgate 1999).

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Title	Henry Fuseli (British Artists)
Author	Martin Myrone
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Tate Publishing
Year published	2001-08-01
Number of pages	80
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