Fabricating the antique : neoclassicism in Britain, 1760-1800 / Viccy Coltman.
Published / Created:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Physical Description:
xii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005030541.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index.
Contents:
(Neo)classicism in the British library -- Worth looking at with reflection -- Monuments as texts and texts as monuments -- Fitt to furnish 2 or more rooms -- Influence of Sir William Hamilton's vase publications on English country house furnishings -- Under the sun there is nothing new -- (Re)constructing Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Familiar objects in an unfamiliar world -- Cachet of the copy -- Cream of antiquity -- Charles Townley and his August family of ancient marbles.
Subject Terms:
Neoclassicism (Art) -- Great Britain. | Art, British -- 18th century.