Art, Power and Modernity English Art Institutions, 1750-1950

by Fyfe, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780718501112
• ISBN10: 071850111X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-13
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

How did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernization of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism of engravers and how their claim to be artists is an important and neglected aspect of the nineteenth-century art world; and how the aesthetic dispute over the Chantrey Bequest epitomized conflicts of taste, cultural independence, and interdependence between opposed art institutions and the Treasury.

Table of Contents

Plates	vi
Figures	vii
Preface and acknowledgements	viii
Introduction: artists and institutions	1	(30)
Fugitive authorship: William Ivins and the reproduction of art	31	(22)
Art exhibitions and power during the nineteenth century	53	(24)
Auditing the RA: official discourse and the nineteenth-century Royal Academy	77	(24)
Art and reproduction: some aspects of the relations between painters and engravers in London, 1760 to 1850	101	(19)
Art classification and rituals of power: the resurgence of etching	120	(16)
A Trojan horse at the Tate: the Chantrey episode	136	(24)
Towards an historical typology of art museums	160	(23)
Bibliography	183	(16)
Index	199