David Wilkie : the people's painter / Nicholas Tromans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tromans, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841--Criticism and interpretation.

Wilkie, David.

Painting--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Painting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first modern book about the artist David Wilkie (1785-1841), the first British painter to become an international celebrity. Based on extensive original research, the book explores the ways in which Wilkie's images, so beloved by his contemporaries, engaged with a range of cultural predicaments close to their hearts. In a series of thematic chapters, whose concerns range far beyond the details of Wilkie's own career, Tromans shows how, through Wilkie's thrillingly original work, British society was able to reimagine its own everyday life, its history, and its multinational (Anglo-Scottish) nature. Other themes covered include Wilkie's roles in defining the border between painting and anatomy in the representation of the human body, and in transforming the pleasures of connoisseurship from an elite to a popular audience. For the first time, all of Wilkie's major subject pictures are brought together, reproduced and discussed. With a great range of new archival material and original interpretive arguments, this book replaces Wilkie at the centre of the visual culture of British Romanticism.

Contents:

COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; 1 Everyday Stories; 2 The Anatomy of Expression; 3 'The Shackles of Connoisseurship'; 4 Everyday Heroes: Wilkie's Version of History; 5 Wilkie and Scotland; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-296) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-7486-5131-4

0-7486-3084-8

OCLC:

476144816