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Tables of Contents for Art on the Line
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
viii
Acknowledgements
ix
List of Contributors
x
Preface `The Exhibition'
xi
Introduction `This Great Mart of Genius': The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836
1
8
David H. Solkin
Architecture and Experience: The Visitor and the Spaces of Somerset House, 1780---1796
9
14
John Murdoch
Staging the Spectacle
23
16
John Sunderland
David H. Solkin
`A Shilling Well Laid Out': The Royal Academy's Early Public
39
16
C. S. Matheson
`Stare Cases': Engendering the Public's Two Bodies at the Royal Academy of Arts
55
10
K. Dian Kriz
`The Business of Criticism': The Press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in Eighteenth-Century London
65
12
Mark Hallett
The Sublime as Spectacle: The Transformation of Ideal Art at Somerset House
77
16
Martin Myrone
`Portrait! Portrait!! Portrait!!!'
93
18
Marcia Pointon
The Spectacle of the Muse: Exhibiting the Actress at the Royal Academy
111
16
Gill Perry
Landscape-O-Rama: The Exhibition Landscape at Somerset House and the Rise of Popular Landscape Entertainments
127
18
Ann Bermingham
Turner Fires a Gun
145
12
Michael Rosenthal
Crowds and Connoisseurs: Looking at Genre Painting at Somerset House
157
16
David H. Solkin
Art in the Dark: Viewing and Exhibiting Sculpture at Somerset House
173
16
Alison Yarrington
Watercolourists and Watercolours at the Royal Academy, 1780--1836
189
12
Greg Smith
Exhibiting Architecture: Strategies of Representation in English Architectural Exhibition Drawings, 1760--1836
201
16
Nicholas Savage
Printmakers and the Royal Academy Exhibitions, 1780-1836
217
12
Sarah Hyde
Foreign Exhibitors and the British School at the Royal Academy, 1768--1823
229
14
Anne Puetz
Taste and the Multitude: The Somerset House Exhibitions in Continental Eyes
243
10
William Vaughan
Tables
253
2
Notes
255
16
Photograph Credits
271
1
Index
272