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From Still Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London
Joseph Monteyne
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Hardback. Explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In this text, the author considers such themes as the display of objects in still lifes and markets, the connoisseur's fetishistic gaze, and the fusion of body and ornament in satires of fashion. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 55 colour images + 101 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; ACQ; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 262 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1218.
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From Still Life to the Screen explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In his lively and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne considers such themes as the display of objects in still lifes and markets, the connoisseur’s fetishistic gaze, and the fusion of body and ornament in satires of fashion. The desire for goods emerged in tandem with modern notions of identity, in which things were seen to mirror and symbolize the self. Prints, particularly graphic satires by such artists as Matthew and Mary Darly, James Gillray, William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson, and ... Read more
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300196351
SKU
V9780300196351
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99-27
About Joseph Monteyne
Joseph Monteyne is associate professor in the history of art at the University of British Columbia.
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