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Title The Royal Academy of Arts : history and collections / edited by Robin Simon, with Maryanne Stevens.
Publisher New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, in association with The Royal Academy of Arts, London, [2018]
Copyright date ©2018


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Descript xvii, 658 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
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Contents Chapter 1: The Institution and the Buildings -- Chapter 2: Works of Art -- Chapter 3: The Arts of Instruction -- Chapter 4: The Archive.
Note Animated by an unprecedented study of its collections, this book tells the story of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and illuminates the history of art in Britain over the past two and a half centuries. Thousands of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and engravings, as well as silver, furniture, medals, and historic photographs, make up this monumental collection, featured here in stunning illustrations, and including an array of little-studied works of art and other objects of the highest quality. The works of art complement an archive of 600,000 documents and the first library in Britain dedicated to the fine arts. This fresh history reveals the central role of the Royal Academy in British national life, especially during the 19th century. It also explores periods of turmoil in the 20th century, when the Academy sought either to defy or to come to terms with modernism, challenging linear histories and frequently held notions of progress and innovation.
ISBN 9780300232073 (hardback)
0300232071 (hardback)
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Subject Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) -- History.
Art museums -- Great Britain.
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain.
Alt author Simon, Robin, 1947- editor.
Stevens, Mary Anne, editor.
Descript xvii, 658 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
Content text txt
still image sti
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Chapter 1: The Institution and the Buildings -- Chapter 2: Works of Art -- Chapter 3: The Arts of Instruction -- Chapter 4: The Archive.
Note Animated by an unprecedented study of its collections, this book tells the story of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and illuminates the history of art in Britain over the past two and a half centuries. Thousands of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and engravings, as well as silver, furniture, medals, and historic photographs, make up this monumental collection, featured here in stunning illustrations, and including an array of little-studied works of art and other objects of the highest quality. The works of art complement an archive of 600,000 documents and the first library in Britain dedicated to the fine arts. This fresh history reveals the central role of the Royal Academy in British national life, especially during the 19th century. It also explores periods of turmoil in the 20th century, when the Academy sought either to defy or to come to terms with modernism, challenging linear histories and frequently held notions of progress and innovation.
ISBN 9780300232073 (hardback)
0300232071 (hardback)
Subject Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) -- History.
Art museums -- Great Britain.
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain.
Alt author Simon, Robin, 1947- editor.
Stevens, Mary Anne, editor.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  q N1100 .R69  7 DAYS  AVAILABLE

Subject Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) -- History.
Art museums -- Great Britain.
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain.
Descript xvii, 658 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
Content text txt
still image sti
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Chapter 1: The Institution and the Buildings -- Chapter 2: Works of Art -- Chapter 3: The Arts of Instruction -- Chapter 4: The Archive.
Note Animated by an unprecedented study of its collections, this book tells the story of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and illuminates the history of art in Britain over the past two and a half centuries. Thousands of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and engravings, as well as silver, furniture, medals, and historic photographs, make up this monumental collection, featured here in stunning illustrations, and including an array of little-studied works of art and other objects of the highest quality. The works of art complement an archive of 600,000 documents and the first library in Britain dedicated to the fine arts. This fresh history reveals the central role of the Royal Academy in British national life, especially during the 19th century. It also explores periods of turmoil in the 20th century, when the Academy sought either to defy or to come to terms with modernism, challenging linear histories and frequently held notions of progress and innovation.
Alt author Simon, Robin, 1947- editor.
Stevens, Mary Anne, editor.
ISBN 9780300232073 (hardback)
0300232071 (hardback)
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