Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-178) and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Englishness, Foreignness and Empire in British Artwriting, c. 1700-1900 -- Jonathan Richardson, Senior -- William Hogarth, the Cosmopolitan Theorist -- National Frames -- The Analysis of Beauty: Seeing `in English' -- Joshua Reynolds' National Visions -- The Picturesque as Travelling Theory -- The Landscape of Empire / Homer Watson -- The Empire of Landscape and Design / John Ruskin -- William Hazlitt and William Morris -- 2.Indigenes, Imports and Exports: Englishness in Artwriting from Modernism to the Twenty-first Century -- `Applied Aesthetics' / Clive Bell -- Wyndham Lewis's Continental Englishness -- Herbert Read: Englishness as Export -- The 1930s -- Art Now and Unit 1 -- The ICA and Festival of Britain -- English Endgame: `the Politics of the Unpolitical' -- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Theory of The Englishness of English Art -- Theory Reception: Englishness since the 1960s -- Art & Language -- Gilbert & George
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Note continued: Ruskinian Resistance / Peter Fuller -- Yinka Shonibare -- Rasheed Araeen -- The Cosmopolitan Nation?.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Arguing against a universal art theory and in favour of a critical return to the 'nation' as a category, this study examines the intertwining of art theory, national identity, and art production in England from the early 18th century to the present day.
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'Englishness' of English art theory since the eighteenth century