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Item Number: 130636
Title: JAMES NORTHCOTE, History Painting, and the "Fables"
Author: Ledbury, Mark
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300208139
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Yale Center for British Art, 2014. 29cm., hardcover, 248pp., 166 color illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746–1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua Reynolds, first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom Northcote apprenticed. Here, Mark Ledbury constructs a very different image of Northcote: that of a prolific member of the Royal Academy and an active participant in the cultural and political circles of the Romantic era, as well as a portrait and history painter in his own right. This book focuses on Northcote’s One Hundred Fables (1828), a masterpiece of wood engraving, and the unconventional, collaged manuscripts for the volume. The Fables, extensively published here for the first time, were an early experiment in what is now a familiar multimedia practice. Idiosyncratic, personal, and visionary, One Hundred Fables serves as a lens through which to examine Northcote’s long, complex, and fruitful artistic career.

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