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Bodybuilding : reforming masculinities in British art, 1750-1810

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Contient : Introduction : masculinity as cultural work in eighteenth-century Britain. - 'Our arts may hope for new advances' : the state of the arts 1755-65. - Reforming the hero : London in the early 1760s. - Gavin Hamilton and Rome in the 1760s. - James Barry in France and Italy. - 'Over-stocked with artists of all sorts' : the state of the arts 1765-75. - General Wolfe among the Macaronis. - Outlaw masculinity : John Hamilton Mortimer in the 1770s. - Alexander Runciman in Rome and Edinburgh. - Henry Fuseli and Thomas Banks in Rome. - 'This weak, disjointed age' : the state of the arts 1775-85. - The American war and the heroic image. - Gothic romance and quixotic heroism : Fuseli in the 1780s. - The male nude at the Royal Academy. - 'Three young sculptors' of the 1790s. - 'I never presum'd to class the painters' : the state of the arts 1785-1800. - Conclusion : genius, madness and the fate of heroic art : Blake and Fuseli in the nineteenth century


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