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Subject(s)

• Masculinity in art [Browse]
• Heroes in art [Browse]
• Art, British—18th century [Browse]
• Art and society—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]

Related name

• Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-373) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : masculinity as cultural work in eighteenth-century Britain
• 'Our arts may hope for new advances' : the state of the arts 1755-1765
• Reforming the hero : London in the early 1760s
• Gavin Hamilton and Rome in the 1760s
• James Barry in France and Italy
• 'Over-stocked with artists of all sorts' : the state of the arts 1765-1775
• General Wolfe among the Macaronis
• Outlaw masculinity : John Hamilton Mortimer in the 1770s
• Alexander Runciman in Rome and Edinburgh
• Henry Fuseli and Thomas Banks in Rome
• 'This weak, disjointed age' : the state of the arts 1775-1785
• The American war and the heroic image
• Gothic romance and quixotic heroism : Fuseli in the 1780s
• The male nude at the Royal Academy
• 'Three young sculptors' of the 1790s
• 'I never presum'd to class the painters' : the state of the arts 1785-1800
• Conclusion: genius, madness and the fate of heroic art : Blake and Fuseli in the nineteenth century
• Notes
• Selected bibliography
• Photograph credits
• Index.

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ISBN

0300110057 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005012041

OCLC

59879576

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