Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain

The 'Englishness' of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century

Mark A. Cheetham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25453-4 (ISBN)

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Arguing in favour of renewed critical attention to the 'nation' as a category in art history, this study examines the intertwining of art theory, national identity and art production in Britain from the early eighteenth century to the present day. The book provides the first sustained account of artwriting in the British context over the full extent of its development and includes new analyses of such central figures as Hogarth, Reynolds, Gilpin, Ruskin, Roger Fry, Herbert Read, Art & Language, Peter Fuller and Rasheed Araeen. Mark A. Cheetham also explores how the 'Englishing' of art theory-which came about despite the longstanding occlusion of the intellectual and theoretical in British culture-did not take place or have effects exclusively in Britain. Theory has always travelled with art and vice versa. Using the frequently resurgent discourse of cosmopolitanism as a frame for his discourse, Cheetham asks whether English traditions of artwriting have been judged inappropriately according to imported criteria of what theory is and does. This book demonstrates that artwriting in the English tradition has not been sufficiently studied, and that 'English Art Theory' is not an oxymoron. Such concerns resonate today beyond academe and the art world in the many heated discussions of resurgent Englishness.

Mark A. Cheetham is a professor of art history at the University of Toronto. He is the author of eight books on modern and contemporary art and has won several international awards.

Contents: Introduction: Artwriting and national identity (or, no theory please, we're English); Englishness, foreignness, and Empire in British artwriting, c. 1700-1900; Indigenes, imports, and exports: Englishness in artwriting from modernism to the 21st century; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	British Art: Global Contexts
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Jason Edwards, Sarah Monks, Sarah Victoria Turner, David Peters Corbett
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	1-138-25453-3 / 1138254533
ISBN-13	978-1-138-25453-4 / 9781138254534
Zustand	Neuware