The conversation piece making modern art in eighteenth-century Britain /

Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic settings. These artists grappled with creating complex mu...

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Main Author: Retford, Kate, 1974-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
Physical Description: xi, 425 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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CMU Main Books 3rd Floor

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CMU Main Books 3rd Floor ND1314.4 .R48 2017 Available
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