John Bonehill

Conflicting Visions

War and Visual Culture in Britain and France c. 1700-1830
Herausgeber: Quilley, Geoff

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Produktbeschreibung

Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France, c. 1700-1830 offers the first systematic reappraisal of the cultural representation of war in Britain and France during the 'long' eighteenth century. This radical collection of essays explores the relation of visual imagery and aesthetics to conflict during this important period, drawing upon a wealth of materials including paintings and prints, maps and topographical drawings, commemorative sculpture and historical artifacts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780754605751
• ISBN-10: 0754605752
• Artikelnr.: 47830169

Autorenporträt

Dr John Bonehill is Lecturer for the Department of History of Art at the University of Leicester, UK. Dr Geoff Quilley is Curator of Maritime Art at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, John Bonehill and Geoff Quilley; Gloire surrenders:
Watteau's military paintings, Julie Ann Plax; Making national heroes? A
survey of the social and political functions and meanings of major British
funeral monuments to naval and military figures, 1730-70, Matthew Craske;
Legitimating the British empire: the monuments to General Wolfe in
Westminster Abbey, Joan Coutu; Our man in Havanna: representation and
reputation in Lieutenant Philip Orsbridge's Britannia's Triumph (1765),
Sarah Monks; Questions of loyalty: the representation of the British West
Indian colonies during the American Revolutionary War, Geoff Quilley;
Exhibiting war: John Singleton Copley's The Siege of Gibraltar and the
staging of history, John Bonehill; The embodiment of strength: depicting a
general as civil leader, Tony Halliday; 'Shocking sights of woe': Charles
Bell and the Battle of Waterloo, Philip Shaw; The matérial of war: Waterloo
and its culture, Susan Pearce; Index.