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Art History: Re‐Viewing Recent Studies
Author(s) -
BONEHILL JOHN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2011.00443.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , exhibition , empire , narrative , attendance , the arts , visual arts , publics , visual culture , point (geometry) , turning point , art , media studies , sociology , aesthetics , history , political science , literature , period (music) , law , geometry , mathematics , politics
This article reviews studies in the visual arts of the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on recent interest in display and reception. The exhibition ‘Art on the Line’, at the Courtauld Institute in 2001, is taken as the starting‐point for scholarship that has addressed the spaces and topographies of display, institutional, commercial and domestic, and the new publics constituted by and in these arenas. Of particular concern is how dominant narratives of eighteenth‐century art have been modified and reinforced by attendance to these issues as well as by studies focused on its relationship to commerce, trade, war and empire.