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This original book explores the radical transformation of the heroic male body in late eighteenth-century British art. It ranges across a period in which a modern art world was established, taking into account the lives and careers of a succession of major figuresfrom Benjamin West and Gavin Hamilton to Henry Fuseli, John Flaxman and William Blakeand influential institutions, from the Royal Academy to the commercial galleries of the 1790s.Organized around the historical traumas of the Seven Years' War (175663), the War of American Independence (177583) and the French Revolution and Revolutionary Wars (17891815), Bodybuilding places the visual representation of the hero at the heart of a series of narratives about social and economic change, gender identity, and the transformation of cultural value on the eve of modernity. The book offers a vivid image of a critical period in Britain's cultural history and establishes a new framework for the study of late-eighteenth-century art and gender.

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 15 October 2005
      ISBN-13 9780300110050
      978-0300110050
      ISBN-10 0300110057
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      History of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This original book explores the radical transformation of the heroic male body in late eighteenth-century British art. It ranges across a period in which a modern art world was established, taking into account the lives and careers of a succession of major figuresfrom Benjamin West and Gavin Hamilton to Henry Fuseli, John Flaxman and William Blakeand influential institutions, from the Royal Academy to the commercial galleries of the 1790s.Organized around the historical traumas of the Seven Years' War (175663), the War of American Independence (177583) and the French Revolution and Revolutionary Wars (17891815), Bodybuilding places the visual representation of the hero at the heart of a series of narratives about social and economic change, gender identity, and the transformation of cultural value on the eve of modernity. The book offers a vivid image of a critical period in Britain's cultural history and establishes a new framework for the study of late-eighteenth-century art and gender.

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