Bodybuilding - Reforming Masculinities in British Art 1750-1810 (Hardcover, New)

This original book explores the radical transformation of the heroic male body in late eighteenth-century British art. It ranges across a period in which a modern art world was established, taking into account the lives and careers of a succession of major figures--from Benjamin West and Gavin Hamilton to Henry Fuseli, John Flaxman and William Blake--and influential institutions, from the Royal Academy to the commercial galleries of the 1790s.Organized around the historical traumas of the Seven Years' War (1756-63), the War of American Independence (1775-83) and the French Revolution and Revolutionary Wars (1789-1815), "Bodybuilding" places the visual representation of the hero at the heart of a series of narratives about social and economic change, gender identity, and the transformation of cultural value on the eve of modernity. The book offers a vivid image of a critical period in Britain's cultural history and establishes a new framework for the study of late-eighteenth-century art and gender.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2005
First published:	February 2006
Authors:	Martin Myrone
Dimensions:	254 x 191 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	352
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-11005-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-300-11005-7
Barcode:	9780300110050

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