1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910819826303321

Titolo

A companion to British art : 1600 to the present / / edited by Dana Arnold and David Peters Corbett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Hoboken : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013

ISBN

1-118-31378-X

1-118-31375-5

1-78268-679-7

1-299-24156-5

1-118-31376-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 570 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history

Disciplina

709.41

Soggetti

Art, British

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Editors' introduction -- pt. 2. General -- pt. 3. Institutions -- pt. 4. Nationhood -- pt. 5. Landscape -- pt. 6. Men and women.

Sommario/riassunto

This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history. A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British artCombines original research with a survey of existing scholarship and the state of the field Touches on the whole of the history of British art, from 800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after 1500Provides the first comprehensive introductio