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Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836
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- edited by David H. Solkin
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- English
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- New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Courtauld Institute Gallery by Yale University Press, [2001]
- ©2001
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- xi, 278 pages, 4 unnumbered folded pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300248098, 9780904563177, 0904563170, 0300090919, 0300248091, 9780300090918
- OCLC
- ocm46872205, on1106559068
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index.
- Preface: 'The Exhibition' -- Introduction: 'This Great Mart of Genius': The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 / David H. Solkin -- 1. Architecture and Experience: The Visitor and the Spaces of Somerset House, 1780-1796 / John Murdoch -- 2. Staging the Spectacle / John Sunderland and David H. Solkin -- 3. 'A Shilling Well Laid Out': The Royal Academy's Early Public / C. S. Matheson -- 4. 'Stare Cases': Engendering the Public's Two Bodies at the Royal Academy of Arts / K. Dian Kriz -- 5. 'The Business of Criticism': The Press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in Eighteenth-Century London / Mark Hallett -- 6. The Sublime as Spectacle: The Transformation of Ideal Art at Somerset House / Martin Myrone -- 7. 'Portrait! Portrait!! Portrait!!!' / Marcia Pointon -- 8. The Spectacle of the Muse: Exhibiting the Actress at the Royal Academy / Gill Perry -- 9. Landscape-O-Rama: The Exhibition Landscape at Somerset House and the Rise of Popular Landscape Entertainments / Ann Bermingham -- 10. Turner Fires a Gun / Michael Rosenthal -- 11. Crowds and Connoisseurs: Looking at Genre Painting at Somerset House / David H. Solkin -- 12. Art in the Dark: Viewing and Exhibiting Sculpture at Somerset House / Alison Yarrington -- 13. Watercolourists and Watercolours at the Royal Academy, 1780-1836 / Greg Smith -- 14. Exhibiting Architecture: Strategies of Representation in English Architectural Exhibition Drawings, 1760-1836 / Nicholas Savage -- 15. Printmakers and the Royal Academy Exhibitions, 1780-1836 / Sarah Hyde -- 16. Foreign Exhibitors and the British School at the Royal Academy, 1768-1823 / Anne Puetz -- 17. Taste and the Multitude: The Somerset House Exhibitions in Continental Eyes / William Vaughan