{"product_id":"placing-faces-the-portrait-and-the-english-country-house-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-9780719090394","title":"Placing faces The Portrait and the English","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the relationship between English country houses and the portraits they contain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Hugh Belsey, Art Newspaper, 01\/07\/2014)\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: placing faces in the country house\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: A walk around the house\u003cbr\u003e1. The topography of the conversation piece: a walk around Wanstead – Kate Retford\u003cbr\u003e2. Life in the library – Susie West\u003cbr\u003e3. Marble, memory and theatre: portraiture and the sculpture gallery at Chatsworth – Alison Yarrington\u003cbr\u003ePART 2: Women’s space?\u003cbr\u003e4. Dirty dancing at Knole: portraits of Giovanna Baccelli and the performance of ‘Public Intimacy’ – Gill Perry\u003cbr\u003e5. ‘Necessary, usefull, easy and delightfull’; the production and display of pastel portraits in the English country house – Ruth Kenny\u003cbr\u003e6. Georgiana at Althorp: Spencer family portraits 1755–1783 – Emma Barker\u003cbr\u003ePART 3: Imperial Designs\u003cbr\u003e7. Commemorating Captain Cook in the country estate – Harriet Guest\u003cbr\u003e8. Framing Sir Francis: Lady Anne Stanhope and the corruption of civic masculinity – Jordan Vibert\u003cbr\u003e9. The Waterloo Chamber before the Battle of Waterloo – Desmond Shawe Taylor\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037345022295,"sku":"9780719090394","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719090394.jpg?v=1750935377","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/placing-faces-the-portrait-and-the-english-country-house-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-9780719090394","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}