Review : "James Barry's mural at the Royal Society of Arts : envisioning a new public art"
Reviews "James Barry's mural at the Royal Society of Arts : envisioning a new public art," by William L. Pressly (Cork University Press, 2014). With this huge, lavishly illustrated volume, Pressly crowns a stack of books and essays on Barry and his contemporaries, fully elucidating fo...
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| Published in | Blake Vol. 94; no. 4 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.01.2016
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| Summary: | Reviews "James Barry's mural at the Royal Society of Arts : envisioning a new public art," by William L. Pressly (Cork University Press, 2014). With this huge, lavishly illustrated volume, Pressly crowns a stack of books and essays on Barry and his contemporaries, fully elucidating for the first time the spectacularly ambitious (and covertly seditious) program underlying Barry's masterpiece, the suite of monumental paintings he created to decorate (and consecrate) the Great Room in the Adelphi, the building that houses the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. [Revised Publication Abstract] |
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| Bibliography: | SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0160-628X |