Title & Author:

Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 / edited by David H. Solkin.

Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Courtauld Institute Gallery by Yale University Press, ©2001.

Description:

xi, 278 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes a folded recreation of the historic hang in the Great Room, Courtauld Institute Gallery.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, Oct. 2001-Jan. 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'This Great Mart of Genius'" The Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 / David H. Solkin -- Architecture and experience: The visitor and the spaces of Somerset House, 1780-1796 / John Murdoch -- Staging the spectacle / John Sunderland and David H. Solkin -- 'A Shilling well laid out': The Royal Academy's early public / C.S. Matheson -- 'Stare Cases' Engendering the public's two bodies at the Royal Academy of Arts / K. Dian Kriz --'The Business of Criticism': The press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in eighteenth-c'entury London / Mark Hallett -- The sublime as spectacle : The transformation of Ideal Art at Somerset House / Martin Myrone -- 'Portrait! Portrait!! Portrait!!!' / Marcia Pointon -- The spectacle of the muse : Exhibiting the Actress at the Royal Academy / Gill Perry.
Landscape-O-Rama: The exhibition landscape at Somerset House and the rise of popular landscape entertainments / Ann Bermingham -- Turner fires a gun / Michael Rosenthal -- Crowds and connoisseurs: looking at genre painting at Somerset House / David H. Solkin -- Art in the dark: viewing and exhibiting sculpture at Somerset House / Alison yarrington -- Watercolourists and watercolours at the royal Academy, 1780-1836 / Greg Smith -- Exhibiting architecture: strategies of representation in English architectural exhibition drawings, 1760-1836 / Nicholas Savage -- Printmakers and the Royal Academy Exhibitions, 1780-1836 / Sarah Hyde -- Foreign exhibitors and the British School at the Royal Academy, 1768-1823 / Anne Puetz -- Taste and the multitude: The Somerset House Exhibitions in continental eyes / William Vaughan.
Dust jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300090919 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300090918 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0904563170 (paperback)
9780904563177 (paperback)

Subject:

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Somerset House (London, England)
Somerset House (London, England : 1776) Exhibitions
Art Exhibitions.
Art, British 18th century.
Art, British 19th century.
Art and society England London.
Art Expositions.
Art britannique 18e siècle.
Art britannique 19e siècle.
Art et société Angleterre Londres.
20.13 art exhibitions.
Art.
Art and society.
Art, British.
Royal Academy of Arts.
Tentoonstellingen.
Schilderkunst.
Somerset House.
Landhuizen.
Art, British 18th century Exhibitions.
Art, British 19th century. Exhibitions.
England London.
1780-1836

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Solkin, David H.
Courtauld Institute Galleries
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222350
Call No.: N5054 .A78 2001
Status: Available