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Gill Perry - Placing faces - 9780719090394 - V9780719090394
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Placing faces

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Description for Placing faces Hardcover. Explores the relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain Editor(s): Perry, Gill; Retford, Kate; Vibert, Jordan. Num Pages: 320 pages, Halftones, black & white|Illustrations, colour|Maps. BIC Classification: ACQ; AGHF; AMKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 179 x 24. Weight in Grams: 936.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719090394
SKU
V9780719090394
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Gill Perry
Gill Perry is Professor of Art History at the Open University Kate Retford is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London Jordan Vibert is a Freelance Researcher specialising in eighteenth-century art and culture Hannah Lyons is a Researcher and Information Assistant at Tate Britain, London -- .

Reviews for Placing faces
"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)
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