Author: Peltz, Lucy (and) Martin Myrone
Title: Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice, 1700-1850
Description: England, Ashgate, 1999. Hardcover. A dark green clothbound hardback with silver lettering on the spine. Has a blue-green dust jacket with Francis Grose's 'Antiquarians, Peeping in Boadicia's Night Urn' in the center. (5), vi-xxiii, 1-214 pp. 51 black and white illustrations. Antiquarianism, which had its roots in Renaissance thought, was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The antiquarian work of collecting, compiling and presenting material which exposed the past was seminal to the formation of social and national identities. These essays evaluate the cultural and political implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history.Contents as follows: Introduction : 'Mine are the subjects rejected by the historian' : antiquarianism, history and the making of modern culture / Lucy Peltz and Martin Myrone; Ceci n'est pas un monument : Vetusta monumenta and antiquarian aesthetics / Maria Grazia Lolla; Graphic antiquarianism in eighteenth-century Britain : the career and reputation of George Vertue (1684-1756) / Martin Myrone; British antiquity and antiquarian illustration / Sam Smiles; 'A small journey into the country' : William Stukeley and the formal landscapes of Stonehenge and Avebury / David Haycock; The true rust of the Barons' Wars : gardens, ruins and the national landscape / Stephen Bending; Caspar David Friedrich and national antiquarianism in Northern Germany / Johann J.K. Reusch; The extra-illustration of London : the gendered spaces and practices of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth century / Lucy Peltz; The desk : excavation site and repository of memories / Annegret Pelz ; translated and revised by Anne Puetz; Antiquarianism, connoisseurship and the Northern Renaissance print : new collecting cultures in the early nineteenth century / Heather MacLennan; Science and sensibility : architectural antiquarianism in the early nineteenth century / Alexandrina Buchanan; Story, history and the passionate collector / Susan A. Crane. VG: Book is clean and appears as though it were hardly ever read/VG: Slight warping at the top center, but otherwise fine.

Keywords: European Art ; Antiquities ; ; Collections - European Art


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