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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gill Perry , Kate Retford , Jordan Vibert , Hannah LyonsPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.930kg ISBN: 9780719090394ISBN 10: 0719090393 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 31 October 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: placing faces in the country house Part 1: A walk around the house 1. The topography of the conversation piece: a walk around Wanstead – Kate Retford 2. Life in the library – Susie West 3. Marble, memory and theatre: portraiture and the sculpture gallery at Chatsworth – Alison Yarrington PART 2: Women’s space? 4. Dirty dancing at Knole: portraits of Giovanna Baccelli and the performance of ‘Public Intimacy’ – Gill Perry 5. ‘Necessary, usefull, easy and delightfull’; the production and display of pastel portraits in the English country house – Ruth Kenny 6. Georgiana at Althorp: Spencer family portraits 1755–1783 – Emma Barker PART 3: Imperial Designs 7. Commemorating Captain Cook in the country estate – Harriet Guest 8. Framing Sir Francis: Lady Anne Stanhope and the corruption of civic masculinity – Jordan Vibert 9. The Waterloo Chamber before the Battle of Waterloo – Desmond Shawe Taylor Bibliography Index -- .Reviewsthe book provides valuable information that increases the reader's understanding of the crucial place portraits occupy in the political and familial role of the country house (Hugh Belsey, Art Newspaper, 01/07/2014) -- Hugh Belsey. Art Newspaper the book provides valuable information that increases the reader's understanding of the crucial place portraits occupy in the political and familial role of the country house (Hugh Belsey, Art Newspaper, 01/07/2014) -- . Author InformationGill Perry is Professor of Art History at the Open University Kate Retford is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London Jordan Vibert is a Freelance Researcher specialising in eighteenth-century art and culture Hannah Lyons is a Researcher and Information Assistant at Tate Britain, London -- . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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