The radical print : art and politics in late eighteenth-century Britain / Esther Chadwick

Author: Chadwick, Esther
Additional Titles: Art and politics in late eighteenth-century Britain
Published: London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2024.
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
Copyright Date: ©2024
Physical Description: vii, 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

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Contents

Introduction : art and politics in the paper age -- Chapter 1. Barry's contemporaneity -- Chapter 2. Mortimer's caprice -- Chapter 3. Gillray's materiality -- Chapter 4. Bewick's currency -- Chapter 5. Blake's millennium -- Afterword : critical printmaking in perspective.

Summary

The Radical Print argues for printmaking in Britain as the most exciting, innovative, and critically engaged field of artistic production in the late eighteenth century. Moving the print from the margins to the centre of the study of art history, this new critical study demonstrates how print responded to the acceleration of historical events, the polarisation of public discourse, and the sense of a world turned upside down in ways that traditional artistic media could not. Across five chapters, this book brings printmakers James Barry, John Hamilton Mortimer, James Gillray, Thomas Bewick, and William Blake together as artists of the "Paper Age" for the first time. From Barry's experiments in aquatint at the time of the American Revolution to Blake's visionary engravings of the post-Napoleonic period, Chadwick shows how the print medium provided artists with special purchase on the major political issues of their age. The Radical Print assembles a rich array of material, from the period's best-known prints to unpublished ephemera, revealing print's dynamic role in one of the most turbulent periods of British history. -- from publisher's website.

Subject(s)

Eighteenth century
Prints, British—18th century—Themes, motives
Prints—Political aspects—Great Britain
Art and society—Great Britain—History—18th century
Prints—Great Britain—18th century
Art—Political aspects—Great Britain—History—18th century
Estampe—Grande-Bretagne—18e siècle
Estampe britannique—18e siècle—Thèmes, motifs
Art et société—Grande-Bretagne—Histoire—18e siècle
Prints
Art—Political aspects
Great Britain

Other Subject(s)

1750-1799

ISBN

9781913107437 (hardback)
1913107434 (hardback)

Note

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 2016.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.

Endowment Note

Gerald Bernard Maxwell Stein Libraries Endowment

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