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LEADER: 03228cam a22003254a 4500
001 2001026307
003 DLC
005 20060803122356.0
008 010427s2001 ctua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001026307
020 $a0300090919 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aN5054$b.A78 2001
082 00 $a709/.41/07442132$221
245 00 $aArt on the line :$bthe Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 /$cedited by David H. Solkin.
260 $aNew Haven, Conn. :$bPublished for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Courtauld Institute Gallery by Yale University Press,$cc2001.
300 $axi, 278 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c30 cm.
500 $aIncludes a folded recreation of the historic hang in the Great Room, Courtauld Institute Gallery.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Preface 'The Exhibition' -- Introduction 'This Great Mart of Genius': -- The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 -- David H. Solkin --1. Architecture and Experience: -- The Visitor and the Spaces of Somerset House, I780-I796 -- John Murdoch -- 2. Staging the Spectacle -- John Sunderland and David H. Solkin -- 3. 'A Shilling Well Laid Out': -- The Royal Academy's Early Public -- C. S. Matheson -- 4. 'Stare Cases': -- Engendering the Public's Two Bodies at the Royal Academy of Arts -- K. Dian Kriz -- 5. 'The Business of Criticism': -- The Press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in Eighteenth-Century London -- Mark Hallett -- 6. The Sublime as Spectacle: -- The Transformation of Ideal Art at Somerset House -- Martin Myrone -- 7. 'Portrait! Portrait!! Portrait!!!' -- Marcia Pointon -- 8. The Spectacle of the Muse: -- Exhibiting the Actress at the Royal Academy -- Gill Perry -- 9. Landscape-O-Rama: -- The Exhibition Landscape at Somerset House and the Rise of Popular Landscape Entertainments -- Ann Bermingham -- 10. Turner Fires a Gun -- Michael Rosenthal -- 11. Crowds and Connoisseurs: -- Looking at Genre Painting at Somerset House -- David H. Solkin -- I2. Art in the Dark: -- Viewing and Exhibiting Sculpture at Somerset House -- Alison Yarrington -- 13. Watercolourists and Watercolours at the Royal Academy, 1780-I836 -- Greg Smith -- 14. Exhibiting Architecture: Strategies of Representation in English Architectural Exhibition Drawings, 1760-1836 -- Nicholas Savage -- 15. Printmakers and the Royal Academy Exhibitions, 1780-1836 -- Sarah Hyde -- 16. Foreign Exhibitors and the British School at the Royal Academy, I768-I823 -- Anne Puetz -- 17. Taste and the Multitude: The Somerset House Exhibitions in Continental Eyes -- William Vaughan -- Tables -- Notes -- Photograph Credits -- Index.
650 0 $aArt$xExhibitions.
610 20 $aRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
650 0 $aArt, British$y18th century.
650 0 $aArt, British$y19th century.
610 20 $aSomerset House (London, England)
650 0 $aArt and society$zEngland$zLondon.
700 1 $aSolkin, David H.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2001026307.html