William Etty Art and Controversy
by Burnage, Sarah; Hallett, Mark; Turner, LauraFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-07-15
Publisher(s): Atlasbooks Dist Serv
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Summary
One of the most successful British artists of the early nineteenth century, Etty¿s work has been neglected until recently. This first major study of Etty¿s work in over fifty years reassesses his use of the nude, his training at the Royal Academy and his large scale historical canvases and proposes a new framework within which his art can be understood. Featuring a series of scholarly essays written by leading experts in the period, the catalogue will interrogate the casting of Etty as a figure of controversy in British art and re-examine his important and energetic contribution to artistic practise in the nineteenth century.
Author Biography
Sarah Burnage is a Research Curator at York Art Gallery for the forthcoming William Etty: Art and Controversy exhibition. Before joining York Art Gallery, Sarah was a Henry Moore Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York. She completed her PhD on the late eighteenth-century sculptor John Bacon RA in June 2008 and is currently in the process of preparing her thesis for publication. She has written a number of articles on sculptural practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Mark Hallett is Head of the History of Art Department at the University of York. He has published widely on eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century British art, and is the author of The Spectacle of Difference: Graphic Satire in the Age of Hogarth (1999) and Hogarth (2000). He was the co-curator of the 'Tate Britain exhibition Hogarth' (2007) and is currently leading a team of scholars and curators working on a three-year research project entitled Court, Country, City: British Art 1660-1735.
Laura Turner is Curator of Art at York Art Gallery, with a special interest in Victorian and early twentieth-century British Art. Between 2005-2008, Laura worked as Assistant Keeper of Art (Collections) at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, where she helped to compile the Ferens catalog, From Victorian to Edwardian. At York, she has curated exhibitions on Stanley Spencer and the St Ives School, and currently oversees the Gallery’s exhibition program and Fine Art collections.
Table of Contents
Foreword -- Laura Turner * Acknowledgements * Introduction -- Sarah Burnage and Mark Hallett * Chronology -- Sarah Burnage and Beatrice Bertram * Art and Controversy: ‘Inflicting Divine Vengeance on the Wicked’-- Sarah Burnage * ‘Something too Academical’: The Problem with Etty -- Martin Myrone * Etty and the Masters -- Richard Green * Intimacy and Distance: Physicality, Race and Paint in Etty’s The Wrestlers -- Sarah Turner * Queer and Now: On Etty’s Autobiography (1849) and Male Nude with Arms Up-Stretched (c.1830) -- Jason Edwards * Catalogue -- Sarah Burnage * Art and Controversy * Etty and the Masters * Etty and the Life Class * Etty and Portraiture * Selected Bibliography * Lenders and Credits * Index
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