Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-16241-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700

Extending the scholarly discussion of visual history, this book examines eighteenth-century engraved book illustrations in order to outline the genealogy of the modern visualisation of the past in Britain.

This study is based on a body of more than a hundred engraved historical plates designed in the second half of the eighteenth century in Britain and published in more than a dozen pictorial histories. Focusing on these previously unstudied engravings, this work contributes to the study of eighteenth-century visual culture and is informed by current interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of visual and book studies. Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain is about the urge to envision the past and about the establishment of the new relationship between visual media, visuality, and history in eighteenth-century Britain.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British history, book studies, and visual culture.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baudino, Isabelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttechniken & Prinzipien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Druck und Drucken
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1. Picturing History Chapter 2. Reinventing the Past Chapter 3. The Historical Genre Chapter 4. Visual History as a New Language

Über Autor(innen)

Isabelle Baudino is Senior Lecturer at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, France.