The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 787
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Yale Books
- ISBN
- 9780300194807
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The Conversation Piece addresses the lack of any substantive, modern discussion of this important genre of eighteenth-century portraiture. It developed out of an invitation to give a paper at a conference on The Georgian Interior at the V&A in 2005 and took twelve years to complete. I systematically visited and researched conversation pieces throughout the UK and US, gaining access to private collections to see a significant number of works not on public display. The final book amounts to more than 190,000 words and more than 200 illustrations, many previously unpublished which required a very large effort to obtain.
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- Non-English
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