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Art and society, British Art, Heroes in art, History, Masculinity in art, BodybuildingPlaces
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Bodybuilding: Reforming Masculinities in British Art 1750-1810 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies)
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Bodybuilding: reforming masculinities in British art 1750-1810
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Masculinity as cultural work in eighteenth-century Britain
'Our arts may hope for new advances': the state of the arts, c.1755-1765
Reforming the hero: London in the early 1760s
Gavin Hamilton and Rome in the 1760s
James Barry in France and Italy
'Over-stocked with artists of all sorts': the state of the arts, c.1765-1775
General Wolfe among the macaronis
Outlaw masculinity: John Hamilton Mortimer in the 1770s
Alexander Runciman in Rome and Edinburgh
Henry Fuseli and Thomas Banks in Rome
'This weak, disjointed age': the state of the arts, c.1775-1785
The American war and the heroic image
Gothic romance and quixotic heroism: Fuseli in the 1780s
The male nude at the Royal Academy
'Three young sculptors' of the 1790s
'I never presum'd to class the painters': the state of the arts, c.1785-1800
Conclusion
Genius, madness and the fate of heroic art: Henry Fuseli and William Blake in the nineteenth century
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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