Learning to draw : studies in the cultural history of a polite and useful art

Learning to draw : studies in the cultural history of a polite and useful art / Ann Bermingham.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bermingham, Ann (Author)
Corporate Author: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Drawing, English > Social aspects.
Art, Amateur > England > History.
Art, Amateur.
England.
Art criticism.
History.
Critiques d'art.
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Table of Contents:
  • The preliminary foundations of a polite and useful art
  • Drawing and the courtly art of illusion
  • Complete gentlemen
  • The popularization of a polite and useful art
  • Drawing the social and political landscape
  • "Articles fanciful, useful, and neat": the business of amateur art
  • Accomplished women
  • Drawing in the age of mechanical reproduction.

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