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2004
Book review
Sculpture and the Two Art Histories
Myrone, Martin
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2007
Journal article
James Barry
Myrone, Martin
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2007
Journal article
Henry Fuseli and gothic spectacle
In this essay, Martin Myrone explores aspects of the art of the Swiss-born painter Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) in the context of the transformation of the public culture of art in late-eighteenth-century Britain. Considering Fuseli's paintings of invented subjects exhibited at the Royal Academy in the 1780s, and his highly idiosyncratic...Myrone, Martin
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2010
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2009
Journal article
Instituting English folk art
This article explores the development of folk art as an idea in English culture during the twentieth century, addressing in particular the commonplace assumption that the promotion of ‘folk art’ is necessarily antagonistic towards modernity, and, correspondingly, it is always to be associated with aesthetic conservatism, political reaction, and ethnically...Myrone, Martin
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2018
Journal article
Blake in exhibition and on display, 1904–2014
This article comments on the record of exhibition and display of Blake’s works in Britain from 1904 to 1914. It provides two check-lists: one of Blake loan exhibitions held in the UK over that period, the other a record of Blake’s presence on display at the national collection of British...Myrone, Martin
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2017
Journal article
Drawing after the antique at the British Museum, 1809–1817: “free” art education and the advent of the liberal state"
From 1808 the British Museum in London began regularly to open its newly established Townley Gallery so that art students could draw from the ancient sculptures housed there. This article documents and comments on this development in art education, based on an analysis of the 165 individuals recorded in the...Myrone, Martin
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1984
Journal article
The measurement of light levels in museums
Tennent, Norman H.
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1999
Journal article
How Sargent made it look easy
Ridge, Jacqueline ; Townsend, Joyce H.