Exploring the Law of Succession Studies National, Historical and Comparative
| Author/creator | Reid, Kenneth Editor Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press New York : Columbia University Press [Distributor] |
| Description | 256 p. 09.210 x 06.140 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Other author/creator | De Waal,Marius Editor |
| Other author/creator | Zimmermann,Reinhard Editor Author |
| Other author/creator | Hogg,James Author |
| Other author/creator | Garside,Peter Editor |
| Other author/creator | De Waal,M. J. Author |
| Series | Edinburgh Studies in Law Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation This is the first modern book about the artist David Wilkie (1785-1841), the first British painter to become an international celebrity. Based on extensive original research, the book explores the ways in which Wilkie's images, so beloved by his contemporaries, engaged with a range of cultural predicaments close to their hearts. In a series of thematic chapters, whose concerns range far beyond the details of Wilkie's own career, Tromans shows how, through Wilkie's thrillingly original work, British society was able to reimagine its own everyday life, its history, and its multinational (Anglo-Scottish) nature.Other themes covered include Wilkie's roles in defining the border between painting and anatomy in the representation of the human body, and in transforming the pleasures of connoisseurship from an elite to a popular audience.For the first time, all of Wilkie's major subject pictures are brought together, reproduced and discussed. With a great range of new archival material and original interpretive arguments, this book replaces Wilkie at the centre of the visual culture of British Romanticism. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780748632909 |
| ISBN | 0748632905 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780748632909 |
| Stock number | 00006328 |
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