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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"British art"”.
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Construction of national identity: British art 1930-1990
Claims for the 'Englishness' or 'Britishness' of art are often attended by a confident appeal to the 'obvious' innateness of certain characteristics - such as individualism, an amateur impulse, or a tendency for figurative work. In some cases claims are made that these, and other 'national' traits, …
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British art cinema, 1975-2000 : context and practice
… itself with examining two general aspects of British art cinema between 1975 and 2000; namely, how the British art cinema operates as an art cinema in the context of its 1960s and 1970s European counterparts54 and how the individual filmmaking practices of these British directors both conform …
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Picturing Whiteness in the National Collection of British Art, 1897 - 2024
… methodologies locating whiteness within visual arts contexts, to inform how whiteness surfaces at Tate, as the National Collection of British Art. Together, the three main chapters, ‘Portrait’, ‘Landscape’ and ‘Institutional Whiteness’, focus on artworks within Tate’s collection, and on staff …
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‘The Grin upon the Deathshead’: A Study of Satire in 1920s British Art.
This study of satire in British art in the 1920s questions what prompted the reappearance of satire in painting, what characterised the new form of ‘modernist’ satire, if and how it relates to the English satirical tradition, and how this new mode evolved over the course of the decade. In …
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The contribution of émigré art historians to the British art world after 1933
The purpose of this Ph.D. thesis on émigré art historians in Britain is not only to show how alien the concept of art history was to the British before 1933, but also to assess and qualify the subsequent practical and theoretical contribution of art historians who immigrated to Britain. These 93 …
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Post-imperial perspectives: British art since 1940 at the Art Gallery of South Australia
This dissertation examines the Art Gallery of South Australia’s patterns of collecting modern and contemporary British art since the outbreak of the Second World War. It analyses the relative influence on these collecting patterns of Australia’s transition from a mono-cultural British dominion to a …
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Natural Disorder: The Animal Image in French and British Art before Darwin, c. 1790-1859
This study of the animal form in French and British art reveals humanity's shifting self-image as new theories of species transmutation replaced hierarchical models of nature in the half-century before the publication of Charles Darwin's <italic>On the Origin of Species</italic> in 1859. To assert …
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Interventions : Twentieth-century art collection schemes and their impact on local authority art gallery and museum collections of twentieth-century British art in Britain
… became a core activity of local authority art galleries and museums in Britain. A key feature of these art collections was the representation of Twentieth Century British Art. The aim of this study is to examine, for the first time, this development as abroad cultural phenomenon, through …
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'Hanging About’: The Teenage Moment of the 1970s/80s and its representation in British Art from the 1990s. With reference to artists: Paul Housley George Shaw Paul Rooney
… 1990s witnessed a group of male, same generation artists begin to produce work that focussed on teenage culture as they experienced it in the 1970s and 80s in the West Midlands and North West of England. For a period, into the mid 2000s, this became a significant part of their individually diverse …
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Coming into View: Black British Artists and Exhibition Cultures 1976-2010
… and contextualising black creativity in British publicly funded art museums and galleries that are part of a broader attempt to increase the diversity of histories and perspectives represented in public art collections and exhibitions. The research focuses on three concurrent 2010 …
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Coming into View: Black British Artists and Exhibition Cultures, 1976-2010
… and contextualising black creativity in British publicly funded art museums and galleries that are part of a broader attempt to increase the diversity of histories and perspectives represented in public art collections and exhibitions. The research focuseson three concurrent 2010 …
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Business unusual : art in Britain during the First World War, 1914-1918
… a fully satisfactory account of its effect on British art is still wanting. Art historians' privileging of modern over traditional, front line over home front and dissenting truth over prevailing opinion has resulted in bombastic, unrepresentative and inadequately historicised interpretations …
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London Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, 1760-1782: The impact on landscape painting and its reception
The institution of annual exhibitions of modern British art has been accredited with the initiation of a consumer-led commercial market which obviated the need for patronage. I argue that the simplistic acceptance that exhibitions were successful in establishing a market for landscape painting …
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Africana Unmasked: Fugitive signs of Africa in Tate's British Collection
… relationship between, on the one hand, my fine art practice—with its interest in postcolonial African and diaspora identities (or, ‘Africana’)—and on the other hand, works at The Tate Gallery—with its remit to hold the National Collection of British Art. By interrogating iconological ‘conditions …
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'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
<p>This essay examines how art and gender become one and the same for British art and social critic John Ruskin. His complexly layered rhetoric, most poignantly expressed through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the …
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The influence of British literature upon pre-Raphaelite painting
… this thesis, to emphasize the influence of British literature upon the Pre-Rapheelite Brotherhood of painters who lived and worked during the reign of Queen Victoria. It is the hope of the writer to show, in treating these artists who revived the truthfulness of nature as applied to …
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'Equivocal Positions': The Influence of William Rothenstein, c.1890-1910
This thesis explores the influence of the artist Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945) between the years 1890 and 1910. A talented draughtsman and painter, Rothenstein was also an energetic social networker, a keen critic, an influential force in the foundation of several societies and – in the case …
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Richard Wilson: Landscape painting for a new Exhibition Culture
… and by his followers as ‘the father of British landscape painting’. Painting in Italy and afterwards in Britain, Wilson was arguably the foremost British landscape painter of the eighteenth century. He painted in a classical style shaped by the works of masters such as Claude Lorrain, …
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