Burning Bright
Essays in Honour of David Bindman
Edited by Diana Dethloff, Caroline Elam, and Tessa Murdoch and with Kim Sloan
This book celebrates the work and career of the internationally renowned art historian, David Bindman, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and is above all a tribute to him from his former students and colleagues.
With essays on sculpture, drawings, watercolours and prints, the volume reflects the extraordinary range of Bindman’s knowledge of works of art and his impact through his teaching and research on the understanding of British and European artistic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. The essays cast light on questions of technique and stylistic change, patronage, collecting and iconography, and engage with issues such as the representation of race, gender, sexuality, political violence and propaganda, exile, and notions of the canon. The artists discussed here include Hogarth, Blake, Roubiliac, Thorvaldsen and Canova, all subjects of books by David Bindman, as well as Morland, Rowlandson, Gillray, Millais, Munch, Nevinson, and Heartfield.
Praise for Burning Bright
'Burning Bright is a delightful tribute to Bindman’s wide-ranging interests and influence, including his curation of exhibitions such as the British Museum’s The Shadow of the Guillotine (1989), and his collecting and gifts to other collections.'
The Art Newspaper
'There is much in this volume that will be treasured for years to come'
The Burlington Magazine
Diana Dethloff is Academic Administrator in the History of Art Department, UCL. Kim Sloan is the Francis Finlay Curator of the Enlightenment Gallery and Curator of British Drawings and Watercolours before 1880, Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. Tessa Murdoch is Deputy Keeper, Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass, Victoria and Albert Museum. Caroline Elam is a Senior Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London. She specialises in architecture, art and patronage in the Italian Renaissance and in the reception of early Italian art in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. She has held academic positions at the University of Glasgow, King’s College, Cambridge and Westfield College, University of London.
Foreword: Celebrating David Bindman
Caroline Elam
PART I: SCULPTURE
Introduction: Carving a Niche in Sculptural History
Tessa Murdoch
Netherlandish Allegories of Madness in English Perspective <
Léon E. Lock
Michael Rysbrack’s Sculpture Series for Queen Caroline’s Library at St James’s Palace
Joanna Marschner
Roubiliac’s Hogarth and the Playful Portrait Bust
Malcolm Baker
Spinning the Thread of Life: The Three Fates, Time and Eternity
Tessa Murdoch
Collecting a Canon: The Earl of Northumberland at Northumberland House and Syon House
Joan Coutu
Eccentric Pioneers? Patrons of Modern Sculpture for Britain c.1790
Julius Bryant
Canova and Thorvaldsen at Chatsworth
Alison Yarrington
William Wyon as a Pupil and Follower of Flaxman
Mark Jones
PART II: DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS & PAINTINGS
Introduction: ‘A close inspection’ of British Paintings and Drawings, ‘within the context of their own time’
Kim Sloan
‘The gipsey-race my pity rarely move’? Representing the Gypsy in George Morland’s Morning, or the Benevolent Sportsman
Nick Grindle
The Face of Saartjie Baartman: Rowlandson, Race and the ‘Hottentot Venus’
Alison E. Wright
Blake, Linnell and Varley and A Treatise on Zodiacal Physiognomy
Martin Butlin
William Blake’s Sodomites
Martin Myrone
Edward Harding and Queen Charlotte
Jane Roberts
John Everett Millais, James Wyatt of Oxford and a Volume of Retzsch’s Outlines to Shakespeare: a Missing Link
Stephen Calloway
An Aesthetic Sitter on an Empire Sofa: William Blake Richmond’s Portrait of Mrs Luke Ionides
Mark Evans
‘A dose of Paradise’: Some Effects of Renaissance Drawings on Victorian Artists
Susan Owens
PART III: PRINTS
Introduction: A Fine Line: Collecting, Communication and the Printed Image
Diana Dethloff
‘I will not alter an Iota for any Mans Opinion upon Earth’: James Gillray’s Portraits of William Pitt the Younger
Simon Turner
Amorous Antiquaries: Sculpture and Seduction in Rowlandson’s Erotica
Danielle Thom
Infernal Machines in Nineteenth-Century France
Richard Taws
Wood-engravings from the Collection of Francis Douce at the Ashmolean Museum
Mercedes Ceron
‘The Human Element’: The Contribution of C.R.W. Nevinson and Eric Kennington to the Britain’s E orts and Ideals Lithographic Project of 1917
Jonathan Black
Idea and Reality: Edvard Munch and the Woodcut Technique
Ute Kuhlemann Falck
John Heart eld: A Political Artist’s Exile in London
Anna Schultz
David Bindman’s Publications
Tabula Gratulatoria
Image Credits
The Burlington Magazine
The Art Newspaper
Format: Open Access PDF
280 Pages
colour illustrations
ISBN: 9781910634349
Publication: September 11, 2015
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