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...
| Main Author: | Retford, Kate, 1974- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2017.
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 425 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction :
- 25 Park Lane, March 1930
- Part 1 :
- Frameworks.
- Making modern art ;
- Staging the art of 'talk' ;
- 'Mode and manner of the time'
- Part 2 :
- Settings.
- Fabricating space I : outside
- Fabricating space II : inside
- Part 3 :
- People.
- 'Familys done in familiar case in groups' ;
- 'The conversation of a well chosen friend' ;
- 'Light incidents'
- Conclusion.