Placing Faces

The Portrait and the English Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

This book explores the rich but understudied relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain. It features essays by well-known scholars such as Alison Yarrington, Gill Perry, Kate Retford, Harriet Guest, Emma Barker and Desmond Shawe-Taylor. Works discussed include grand portraits, intimate pastels and imposing sculptures. Moving between residences as diverse as Stowe, Althorp Park, the Vache, Chatsworth, Knole and Windsor Castle, it unpicks the significance of various spaces – the closet, the gallery, the library – and the ways in which portraiture interacted with those environments. It explores questions around gender, investigating narratives of family and kinship in portraits of women as wives and daughters, but also as mistresses and celebrities. It also interrogates representations of military heroes in order to explore the wider, complex ties between these families, their houses, and imperial conflict. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in eighteenth-century studies, especially for those studying portraiture and country houses.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-31
Mått:170 x 240 x 27 mm
Vikt:925 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9780719090394

Utforska kategorier

Arkitektur inom Kultur
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Gill Perry is Professor of Art History at the Open UniversityKate Retford is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of LondonJordan Vibert is a Freelance Researcher specialising in eighteenth-century art and cultureHannah Lyons is a Researcher and Information Assistant at Tate Britain, London

Recensioner i media

"the book provides valuable information that increases the reader's understanding of the crucial place portraits occupy in the political and familial role of the country house"(Hugh Belsey, Art Newspaper, 01/07/2014)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: placing faces in the country housePart 1: A walk around the house1. The topography of the conversation piece: a walk around Wanstead – Kate Retford2. Life in the library – Susie West3. Marble, memory and theatre: portraiture and the sculpture gallery at Chatsworth – Alison YarringtonPART 2: Women’s space?4. Dirty dancing at Knole: portraits of Giovanna Baccelli and the performance of ‘Public Intimacy’ – Gill Perry5. ‘Necessary, usefull, easy and delightfull’; the production and display of pastel portraits in the English country house – Ruth Kenny6. Georgiana at Althorp: Spencer family portraits 1755–1783 – Emma BarkerPART 3: Imperial Designs7. Commemorating Captain Cook in the country estate – Harriet Guest8. Framing Sir Francis: Lady Anne Stanhope and the corruption of civic masculinity – Jordan Vibert9. The Waterloo Chamber before the Battle of Waterloo – Desmond Shawe TaylorBibliographyIndex