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Item Number: 85188
Title: JAMES BARRY 1741–1806: History Painter
Author: Dunne, Tom ; William Pressly (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780754666349
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. 24cm., hardcover, 268pp., 11 color, 50 b&w illus. Contents: Foreword: Barry studies from a bicentennial perspective, William L. Pressly; Introduction: James Barry's 'moral art', and the fate of history painting in Britain, Tom Dunne; From oddity to odd man out: James Barry's critical legacy, 1806–66, David H. Solkin; James Barry's 'hairbreath niceties': risk, reward, and the reform of culture around 1770, Martin Myrone; James Barry: a history painter in Paris in the 1760s, Fionnuala McManamon; 'Glowing thoughts on glowing canvas': James Barry's Venus Rising from the Sea, Margaret W. Lind; Barry, Reynolds and the British school, Martin Postle; Barry and Fuseli: Milton, exile and expulsion, Asia Haut; The politics of envy: Blake and Barry, David Bindman; Reform and revolution: James Barry's writings in the 1790s, John Barrell; History painting and aesthetics: Barry and the politics of friendship, Liam Lenihan; No 36 Castle Street East: a reconstruction of James Barry's house, painting and printmaking studio, and the making of The Birth of Pandora, Michael Phillips; Crowning the Victors at Olympia: the great room's primary focus, William L. Pressly; Barry's Bosseut in Elysium: Catholicism and counter-revolution in the 1790s, Daniel R. Guernsey; 'A monument to perpetuate his memory': James Barry's Adelphi cycle revisited, David G.C. Allan; Select bibliography; Index.
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