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An archetypal Constable : national identity and the geography of nostalgia / Peter Bishop.
Author
Bishop, Peter, 1946-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©1995.
Description
vii, 245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
ND497.C7 B573 1995
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Subject(s)
Landscape painting, English
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19th century
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England
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In art
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England
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Civilization
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19th century
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Constable, John 1776-1837
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Criticism and interpretation
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Art
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works of art
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Summary note
What is the significance of Constable's paintings and 'Constable country' for the contemporary postmodern era? Peter Bishop brings a new, post-Jungian or archetypal perspective to bear on Constable's paintings and 'Constable country', addressing also the broader issues of the cultural psychology of art and the role of imagined landscapes in the formation of modern psychological and cultural ideas. It forms a companion volume to the author's earlier work, The Myth of Shangri-La, which looked at Western fantasies of the 'Other' as expressed in the creation of images of an exotic place. The present volume charts the corresponding fantasies of the 'Self': 'Constable country' provides a lens to examine the fostering of a sense of identity - individual, cultural and national. It will be of value to all those with an interest in art history, cultural history, psychology and cultural geography.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-235) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction: constable/CONSTABLE
Consuming Constable: diet, health and national identity
Nostalgia and memory: a distant, sunlit meadow
Dew and the poetics of refraction
The interwar years I: a hidden valley
The interwar years II: diet, health and identity
The interwar years III: slow, moody and misty
A postmodern Constable.
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ISBN
0838636454 ((alk. paper))
9780838636459 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
95000210
OCLC
31970477
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