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James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables (Hardcover)
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James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables (Hardcover)
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The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746-1831) have
tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua
Reynolds, first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom
Northcote apprenticed for five years. Here, Mark Ledbury constructs
a very different image of Northcote: that of a prolific member of
the Royal Academy and an active participant in the cultural and
political circles of the Romantic era, as well as a portrait and
history painter in his own right. This book pays particular
attention to Northcote's One Hundred Fables (1828), a masterpiece
of wood engraving, and the unconventional, collaged manuscripts for
the volume, now at the Yale Center for British Art. Along with
another series of collages now at The Morgan Library & Museum
and a second volume of fables published posthumously in 1833, these
collages and printed works constitute the most ambitious project of
the artist's later years. An underappreciated and courageously
eccentric masterpiece, the Fables were an early experiment in what
is now a familiar multimedia practice and are extensively published
here for the first time. Idiosyncratic, personal, and visionary,
the Fables serve as a lens through which to examine Northcote's
long, complex, and fruitful artistic career. Distributed for the
Yale Center for British Art Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for
British Art (10/02/14-12/14/14)
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