This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the

Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-f

Directing unprecedented attention to how the idea of ?excess? has been used by both producers and consumers of visual and material culture, this collection exam

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the

The British School of Sculpture, c. 1760?1832 represents the first edited collection exploring one of the most significant moments in British art history, retur