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Fighting History
Clare Barlow, Mark Salber Phillips, Dexter Dalwood
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Description for Fighting History
Hardcover. Editor(s): Sullivan, M. G. Num Pages: 64 pages, 35 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AFC; AG; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 205 x 11. Weight in Grams: 252.
Fighting History is the first book to engage with the story of British history painting and its survival into contemporary practice today. Beautifully illustrated with works from the Tate collection, as well as a number of paintings from other institutions and from practicing artists, the book traces the tradition of history painting from the baroque allegory of the seventeenth-century court to contemporary works by Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Deller, Michael Fullerton, and others. Three short essays address themes in history painting, from the question of the shifting meanings of 'history painting' to an account of the great radical artists in the ... Read more
Fighting History is the first book to engage with the story of British history painting and its survival into contemporary practice today. Beautifully illustrated with works from the Tate collection, as well as a number of paintings from other institutions and from practicing artists, the book traces the tradition of history painting from the baroque allegory of the seventeenth-century court to contemporary works by Dexter Dalwood, Jeremy Deller, Michael Fullerton, and others. Three short essays address themes in history painting, from the question of the shifting meanings of 'history painting' to an account of the great radical artists in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849763585
SKU
V9781849763585
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Ref
99-20
About Clare Barlow, Mark Salber Phillips, Dexter Dalwood
M. G. Sullivan is Curator, British Art 1750 - 1830, at Tate Britain Clare Barlow is Assistant Curator, British Art 1750-1830, at Tate Britain. Mark Salber Phillips is Professor of History at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author of Society and Sentiment: the Genres of Historical Writing in Britain 1740-1820 (2000) and On Historical Distance (2013). Dexter Dalwood is ... Read more
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