edited guilland sutherland (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 239 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's signature/front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. *** "This book marks the retirement of Robert Wark as Curator of the Huntington Art Collections and reflects his wide interests in the field of British art. Contributors include Shelley Bennett, David Bindman, Martin Butlin, Patricia Crown, Robert Essick, John Hayes, Ronald Paulson, Jules Prown, Graham Reynolds, and Duncan Robinson. Topics covered in this volume include the connection between the political and the aesthetic in Hogarth's art, verbal/visual relationships in British book illustration, Blake's illustrations to Paradise Lost, late-eighteenth-century portrait miniatures, Cotes's double portrait of the Crathornes, the French Revolution in English graphic art of the 1790s, comic art and the rococo, a study of a Reynolds portrait, and a tribute by John Hayes to Robert Wark's thirty-five years of curatorship of the Huntington Art Collections. The essays are accompanied by 122 color and black and white illustrations of items from leading British and American art collections." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Robert Wark, curator extraordinary, by John Hayes; Politics and aesthetics: Hogarth in 1759, by Ronald Paulson; A muse of art in the Huntington Collection, by Shelley M. Bennett Giuseppe Baretti as "a man of great humanity", by Duncan Robinson; British comic art and the Rococo, by Patricia Crown; Late eighteenth-century miniatures by Richard Cosway and Andrew Plimer, by Graham Reynolds; "Revolution-soup, dished up with human flesh and French pot-herbs": Burke's Reflections and the visual culture of late eighteenth-century England, by David Bindman; The dating and composition of William Blake's larger series of illustrations to Paradise lost, by Martin Butlin; Visual/verbal relationships in book illustration, by Robert N. Essick; The expedition against the Ohio Indians in 1764 under Colonel Bouquet: two early drawings by Benjamin West, by Jules D. Prown. Robert R. Wark: a bibliography of his publications, by Guilland Sutherland. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condición: Excellent condition. Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. 239 pp. Dustjacket. LCC: 9228356.