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Painting for money : the visual arts and the public sphere in eighteenth-century England / David H. Solkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solkin, David H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art patronage--England--History--18th century.
- Art patronage.
- Art--Commissioning--England--History--18th century.
- Art.
- Art--England--Marketing.
- Art, English--18th century--Themes, motives.
- Art, English.
- Artists and patrons--England--History--18th century.
- Artists and patrons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages) : 88 illustrations (some color), portraits
- Other Title:
- Visual arts and the public sphere in eighteenth-century England
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- England in the 18th century witnessed the establishment of the first public spaces for the display of works of art, and the rise of an art market responsive to the tastes of a wide audience. This book discusses these phenomena, showing how these developments transformed English painting. Solkin examines the attempts by artists in the early 18th century to represent the world of commercial modernity. By the 1730s, the foundations had been laid for the production of certain innovative forms of public art that were designed specifically for a middle class audience, transforming the traditional subject matter of historical paintings into something less high-minded and more popular, and many painters abandoned idealized forms and classical subjects and offered instead detailed portrayals of modern British themes. At the same time, the image of the hero was transformed from a character of stern and stoic masculinity into a new paragon of sensitivity and benevolence, tailored to a non-heroic audience. The founding of the Royal Academy in 1768 marked an attempt to return to the standards of the past, but this did not check the growth of a new genre of British painting with its own inner dynamic, meaning and ambition.
- Contents:
- Introduction: On painting, commerce, and the 'public' in eighteenth-century Britain
- Kit-cats, commerce, and conversation
- Conversation at the crossroads
- Hogarth's refinement
- Vauxhall gardens : or, The politics of pleasure
- Exhibitions of sympathy
- Joseph Wright of Derby and the power of the aesthetic
- From criticism into crisis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-306) and index.
- Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed February 26, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9780300278583
- 0300278586
- OCLC:
- 1422542924
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