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Learning to draw : studies in the cultural history of a polite and useful art / Ann Bermingham.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven, CT : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xv, 304 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300080395
  • 9780300080391
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.47 21
LOC classification:
  • NC228 .B47 2000
Contents:
Preface -- Pt. 1. The Preliminary Foundations of a Polite and Useful Art -- 1. Drawing and the Courtly Art of Illusion -- 2. Complete Gentlemen -- Pt. 2. The Popularization of a Polite and Useful Art -- 3. Drawing the Social and Political Landscape -- 4. "Articles Fanciful, Useful, and Neat" - The Business of Amateur Art -- 5. Accomplished Women -- 6. Drawing in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Photograph Credits -- Index.
Review: "This book explores the social and cultural processes that enabled drawing to emerge as an amateur pastime, as well as the meanings that drawing had for people who were not artists. Ann Bermingham shows how the history of drawing in England - from the age of Elizabeth I to the era of early photography - mirrored changes in society, politics, the practical world, and notions of self." "This book examines how drawing intersected with a wide range of social phenomena, from political absolutism, writing, empirical science, and Enlightenment pedagogy to nationalism, industrialism, tourism, bourgeois gentility, and religious instruction."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-293) and index.

Preface -- Pt. 1. The Preliminary Foundations of a Polite and Useful Art -- 1. Drawing and the Courtly Art of Illusion -- 2. Complete Gentlemen -- Pt. 2. The Popularization of a Polite and Useful Art -- 3. Drawing the Social and Political Landscape -- 4. "Articles Fanciful, Useful, and Neat" - The Business of Amateur Art -- 5. Accomplished Women -- 6. Drawing in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Photograph Credits -- Index.

"This book explores the social and cultural processes that enabled drawing to emerge as an amateur pastime, as well as the meanings that drawing had for people who were not artists. Ann Bermingham shows how the history of drawing in England - from the age of Elizabeth I to the era of early photography - mirrored changes in society, politics, the practical world, and notions of self." "This book examines how drawing intersected with a wide range of social phenomena, from political absolutism, writing, empirical science, and Enlightenment pedagogy to nationalism, industrialism, tourism, bourgeois gentility, and religious instruction."--BOOK JACKET.

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