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James Barry's Murals at the Royal Society of Arts: Envisioning a New Public Art
Dr William L. Pressly
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Description for James Barry's Murals at the Royal Society of Arts: Envisioning a New Public Art
Hardcover. Between 1777 and 1784, the Irish artist James Barry (1741-1806) executed six murals for the Great Room of the [Royal] Society of Arts in London. Although his works form the most impressive series of history paintings in Great Britain, they remain one of the British art world's best kept secrets. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACQ; AFC; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 249 x 345 x 36. Weight in Grams: 3032. Large folio.
Between 1777 and 1784, the Irish artist James Barry (1741-1806) executed six murals for the Great Room of the [Royal] Society of Arts in London. Although his works form the most impressive series of history paintings in Great Britain, they remain one of the British art world's best kept secrets, having attracted little attention from critics or the general public. James Barry's Murals at the Royal Society of Arts is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of these remarkable paintings and the first to demonstrate that the artist was pioneering a new approach to public art in terms ... Read more
Between 1777 and 1784, the Irish artist James Barry (1741-1806) executed six murals for the Great Room of the [Royal] Society of Arts in London. Although his works form the most impressive series of history paintings in Great Britain, they remain one of the British art world's best kept secrets, having attracted little attention from critics or the general public. James Barry's Murals at the Royal Society of Arts is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of these remarkable paintings and the first to demonstrate that the artist was pioneering a new approach to public art in terms ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782051084
SKU
KEX0291663
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About Dr William L. Pressly
William L Pressly is Emeritus Professor of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Art at the University of Maryland. He is the author of James Barry: The Life and Art of James Barry (Yale University Press, 1981) and James Barry: the Artist as Hero (Tate Gallery, 1983).
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