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Author Fyfe, Gordon.

Title Art, power, and modernity : English art institutions, 1750-1950 / Gordon Fyfe.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Leicester University Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary issues in museum culture
Contemporary issues in museum culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
Contents Plates; Figures; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: artists and institutions; 2 Fugitive authorship: William Ivins and the reproduction of art; 3 Art exhibitions and power during the nineteenth century; 4 Auditing the RA: official discourse and the nineteenth-century Royal Academy; 5 Art and reproduction: some aspects of the relations between painters and engravers in London, 1760 to 1850; 6 Art classification and rituals of power: the resurgence of etching; 7 A Trojan horse at the Tate: the Chantrey episode; 8 Towards an historical typology of art museums; Bibliography.
IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary Hwo did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernisation of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism of engravers and how their claim to be artists is an important and negkected aspect of the nineteenth-century art world; and how the aesthetic dispute over the Chantrey Bequest epitomized conflicts of taste, cultural independence, and interdependence between opposed art institutions and the Treasury.
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Subject Art and society -- England -- London -- History.
Art and society.
England -- London.
History.
Art, English -- England -- London.
Art, English.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fyfe, Gordon. Art, power, and modernity. London ; New York : Leicester University Press, ©2000 071850111X (DLC) 99086882 (OCoLC)43109842
ISBN 9780567151988 (electronic book)
0567151980 (electronic book)
071850111X
9780718501112