The King's Artists by Holger Hoock
This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the British Isles and North America. This is the first study of its early years, re-evaluating the Academy's significance in national cultural life and its profile in an international context. Holger Hoock reassesses royal and state patronage of the arts and explores the concepts and practices of cultural patriotism and the politicization of art during the American and French Revolutions. By demonstrating how the Academy shaped the notions of an English and British school of art and influenced the emergence of the British cultural state, he illuminates the politics of national culture and the character of British public life in an age of war, revolution, and reform.
offers an energising alternative perspective on the shaping of the national culture and the wider role of the creative arts in public life at this period* Shelley King, Time Higher Education Supplement *
...the standard account of the early years of the Academy * John Bonehill, Oxford Art Journal *
Dr Hoock's book ... is beautifully produced, and the illustrations ... are well-chosen and plentiful. * John Cannon, English Historical Review *
...the standard account of the early years of the Academy * John Bonehill, Oxford Art Journal *
Dr Hoock's book ... is beautifully produced, and the illustrations ... are well-chosen and plentiful. * John Cannon, English Historical Review *
Holger Hoock was educated at Freiburg and Cambridge and received his doctorate from Oxford. He currently serves as the J. Carroll Amundson Professor of British History and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. His previous books include Empires of the Imagination and The King's Artists. An elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Hoock has recently been a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress; visiting scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Konstanz.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199279098 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199279098 |
| Title | The King's Artists |
| Author | Holger Hoock |
| Series | Oxford Historical Monographs |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2005-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
| Prizes | Winner of Awarded the Proxime accessit for the Whitfield Prize 2003. |
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