William Etty : art & controversy

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William Etty : art & controversy

edited by Sarah Burnage, Mark Hallett and Laura Turner

Philip Wilson Publishers in association with York Museums Trust, c2011

  • : hardback ed

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Exhibition catalogue

"Published to coincide with the exhibition William Etty: art and controversy, 25 June 2011 - 22 January 2012, held at York Art Gallery."--T.p. Verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250) and index

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One of the most successful British artists of the early nineteenth century, Etty's work has been neglected until recently. This first major study of Etty's work in over fifty years reassesses his use of the nude, his training at the Royal Academy and his large scale historical canvases and proposes a new framework within which his art can be understood. Featuring a series of scholarly essays written by leading experts in the period, the catalogue will interrogate the casting of Etty as a figure of controversy in British art and re-examine his important and energetic contribution to artistic practise in the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Foreword Laura Turner Acknowledgements Introduction Sarah Burnage and Mark Hallett Chronology Sarah Burnage and Beatrice Bertram Art and Controversy: 'Inflicting Divine Vengeance on the Wicked' Sarah Burnage 'Something too Academical': The Problem with Etty Martin Myrone Etty and the Masters Richard Green Intimacy and Distance: Physicality, Race and Paint in Etty's The Wrestlers Sarah Turner Queer and Now: On Etty's Autobiography (1849) and Male Nude with Arms Up-Stretched (c.1830) Jason Edwards Catalogue Sarah Burnage Art and Controversy Etty and the Masters Etty and the Life Class Etty and Portraiture Selected Bibliography Lenders and Credits Index

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