"Combining visual analysis, social history and masculinity studies, Bodybuilding effects a vivid image of this critical period in Britain's cultural history and establishes on ambitious new framework for the study of late eighteenth-century ...
'The Blake Book' provides a thorough introduction to the life and work of William Blake, and draws on the vast array of contemporary scholarship, providing a clear-headed overview of Blake's writings and paintings.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of Blake's work as a printmaker, poet, and painter, foregrounding his relationship with the art world of his time and telling the stories behind many of his most iconic images."--
Henry Fuseli's work has always been the subject of speculation, from the rumours of his opium addiction to modern views of him as an exponent of Neoclassicism. This text offers an interpretation of the artist.
His pictures of famous racehorses and their riders and the more dramatic works showing horses and lions in combat are among the most familiar images in British art, prized for their subtlety, naturalism and piercing observation.