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100 1 Myrone, Martin.
245 10 Bodybuilding :|breforming masculinities in British art
1750-1810 /|c[Martin Myrone].
260 New Haven [Conn.] ;|aLondon :|bYale University Press for
the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,|cc2005.
300 vii, 384 p. :|bill. (some col.) ;|c27 cm.
505 0 Introduction : masculinity as cultural work in eighteenth-
century Britain -- 'Our arts may hope for new advances' :
the state of the arts 1755-1765 -- Reforming the hero :
London in the early 1760s -- Gavin Hamilton and Rome in
the 1760s -- James Barry in France and Italy -- 'Over-
stocked with artists of all sorts' : the state of the arts
1765-1775 -- General Wolfe among the Macaronis -- Outlaw
masculinity : John Hamilton Mortimer in the 1770s --
Alexander Runciman in Rome and Edinburgh -- Henry Fuseli
and Thomas Banks in Rome -- 'This weak, disjointed age' :
the state of the arts 1775-1785 -- The American war and
the heroic image -- Gothic romance and quixotic heroism :
Fuseli in the 1780s -- The male nude at the Royal Academy
-- 'Three young sculptors' of the 1790s -- 'I never
presum'd to class the painters' : the state of the arts
1785-1800 -- Conclusion: genius, madness and the fate of
heroic art : Blake and Fuseli in the nineteenth century --
Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Photograph credits --
Index.
650 0 Masculinity in art.
650 0 Heroes in art.
650 0 Art, British|y18th century.
650 0 Art and society|zGreat Britain|xHistory|y18th century.
710 2 Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
