Myrone, Martin, Bodybuilding , 2005
- Title(s):
- Bodybuilding : reforming masculinities in British art 1750-1810 / Martin Myrone.
- Published/Created:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 384 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryN8222.M38 M97 2005 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/7169508
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- Table of contents
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.Art, British -- 18th century.Heroes in art.Masculinity in art.
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- Introduction
- Masculinity as cultural work in eighteenth-century Britain
- 'Our arts may hope for new advances': the state of the arts, c.1755-1765
- Reforming the hero: London in the early 1760s
- Gavin Hamilton and Rome in the 1760s
- James Barry in France and Italy
- 'Over-stocked with artists of all sorts': the state of the arts, c.1765-1775
- General Wolfe among the macaronis
- Outlaw masculinity: John Hamilton Mortimer in the 1770s
- Alexander Runciman in Rome and Edinburgh
- Henry Fuseli and Thomas Banks in Rome
- 'This weak, disjointed age': the state of the arts, c.1775-1785
- The American war and the heroic image
- Gothic romance and quixotic heroism: Fuseli in the 1780s
- The male nude at the Royal Academy
- 'Three young sculptors' of the 1790s
- 'I never presum'd to class the painters': the state of the arts, c.1785-1800
- Conclusion
- Genius, madness and the fate of heroic art: Henry Fuseli and William Blake in the nineteenth century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.