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The Classical Body in Romantic Britain (Hardcover)
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The Classical Body in Romantic Britain (Hardcover)
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A radical, lively departure from received notions about art of the
Romantic period For many, the term "neoclassicism" has come to
imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving
the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring
assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to
the early Victorian period, casting new light on appropriations of
the classical body by British artists. It is the first to
foreground the intersections of gender, race, and class in
discussions of British visual classicism, laying bare artists'
alternately politicizing and emphatically sensual engagements with
Greco-Roman art. Rather than rely exclusively on subsequent
scholarship, the book takes up the poet John Keats (1795-1821) as a
theoretical framework. Eschewing the "Golden Age" narrative, which
sees J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) as the pinnacle of the period's
artistic achievement, the book examines overlooked artists, such as
Henry Howard (1769-1847) and John Graham Lough (1798-1876). The
result is a fresh account of underappreciated works of British
painting and sculpture.
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