Bodybuilding : reforming masculinities in British art 1750-1810 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Myrone, Martin
Corporate Author:	Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, [2005]
Subjects:	Masculinity in art. Heroes in art. Art, British > 18th century. Art and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction : masculinity as cultural work in eighteenth-century Britain
'Our arts may hope for new advances' : the state of the arts 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 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 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 1785-1800
Conclusion: genius, madness and the fate of heroic art : Blake and Fuseli in the nineteenth century
Notes
Selected bibliography
Photograph credits
Index.