Towards A Modern Art World

To Speak Of 'the British' In Conjunction With 'the Modern' Suggests A Linkage That Goes Against The Grain Of The Narrative Which Dominates Our Understanding Of The History Of Western Art From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day. Although Works Produced By British Artists Do Occasionally Appear In That Story, As A Rule They Have Featured As Insignificant, Or Have Simply Been Left Out Altogether. Towards A Modern Art World Aims To Account For The Marginal Position Of British Art By Approaching That Marginality As An Historical Problem. In A Series Of Essays Dealing With Institutions As Well As Individual Painters And Sculptors, This Book Charts The Development Of The London Art World From The 1730s To The 1930s. Academies, Public Exhibitions, And Commercial Galleries Feature Together With Artists As Diverse As William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, W.p. Frith, Walter Sickert, And Henry Moore. The British And The Modern / David Solkin -- Cultural Production, Consumption, And The Place Of The Artist In Eighteenth-century England / John Brewer -- Hogarth And The Distribution Of Visual Images / Ronald Paulson -- An Exquisite Practise: The Institution Of Drawings As Polite Art In Britain / Ann Bermingham -- Doubting Visionaries: Thomson, Barry, And The Future Of The Arts / Marilyn Butler -- The Representation Of The Human Body: Art And Medicine In The Work Of Charles Bell / Ludmilla Jordanova -- Art Exhibitions As Leisure-class Rituals In Early Nineteenth-century London / Andrew Hemingway -- The British School And The British School / John Gage -- In Search Of The True Briton: Reynolds, Hogarth, And The British School / Martin Postle -- William Hazlitt, Prince Hoare, And The Institutionalisation Of The British Art World / Peter Funnell -- Ramsgate Sands, Modern Life, And The Shoring-up Of Narrative / Caroline Arscott -- Artists' Professional Societies: Production, Consumption, And Aesthetics / Julie F. Codell -- The End Of Victorian Art: W.r. Sickert And The Defence Of Illustrative Painting / Stella Tillyard -- England's Climate / Charles Harrison. Edited By Brian Allen. Includes Bibliographical References.