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William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds: The Anatomist and the Fine Arts: Routledge Research in Art History

Autor Helen McCormack
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 oct 2017
The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in Britain in the eighteenth century. Born at the family home in East Calderwood, he matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1731 and was greatly influenced by some of the most important philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746). He quickly abandoned his studies in theology for Medicine and, in 1740, left Scotland for London where he steadily acquired a reputation as an energetic and astute practitioner; he combined his working life as an anatomist successfully with a wide range of interests in natural history, including mineralogy, conchology, botany and ornithology; and in antiquities, books, medals and artefacts; in the fine arts, he worked with artists and dealers and came to own a number of beautiful oil paintings and volumes of extremely fine prints. He built an impressive school of anatomy and a museum which housed these substantial and important collections. William Hunter’s life and work is the subject of this book, a cultural-anthropological account of his influence and legacy as an anatomist, physician, collector, teacher and demonstrator. Combining Hunter’s lectures to students of anatomy with his teaching at the St Martin’s Lane Academy, his patronage of artists, such as Robert Edge Pine, George Stubbs and Johan Zoffany, and his associations with artists at the Royal Academy of Arts, the book positions Hunter at the very centre of artistic, scientific and cultural life in London during the period, presenting a sustained and critical account of the relationship between anatomy and artists over the course of the long eighteenth century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472424426
ISBN-10: 1472424425
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 13 Halftones, color; 37 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, color; 37 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Art History

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Art, Science, Curiosity and Commerce
Chapter One: Forming the Museum: Context and Chronology
Chapter Two: The Great Windmill Street Anatomy School and Museum
Chapter Three: Patronage and Patriots: Hunter and a National School of Artists
Chapter Four: Collecting Ambitions (1770-1783) The Grand Tour Paintings
Chapter Five: Pursuing the Imitation of Nature in and beyond the Royal Academy of Arts
Bibliography
Index

Notă biografică

Helen McCormack is a Lecturer in Art, Design, History and Theory at Glasgow School of Art. She studied Art History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the History of Design and Material Culture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art, London. She was the David Carritt Scholar in the History of Art at the University of Glasgow where she completed her PhD on the subject of William Hunter as a collector of the fine arts.

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In a departure from conventional biographies, this book concentrates on Hunter’s position at the very centre of artistic, scientific and cultural life in London and in doing so, presents a sustained and critical account of the relationship between anatomy and artists over the course of the long eighteenth century.