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Learning to Draw
Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art
by Ann Bermingham🔥 Learning to Draw — Read More 🔥
- Format: hardcover, 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780300080391 (0300080395)
- Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA
- Language: english
- Author: Ann Bermingham
- Release date: March 11, 2000
About The Book
As early as the sixteenth century, drawing in England came to be seen as something more than an activity exclusive to artists; it became a polite and useful art, a practice of everyday life. This generously illustrated book explores the social and cultural processes that enabled drawing to emerge as an amateur pastime, as well as the meanings that drawing had for people who were not artists. Ann Bermingham shows how the history of drawing in England, from the age of Elizabeth I to the era of early photography, mirrored changes in society, politics, the practical world, and notions of self. The book examines how drawing intersected with a wide range of social phenomena, from political absolutism, writing, empirical science, and Enlightenment pedagogy to nationalism, industrialism, tourism, bourgeois gentility, and religious instruction. Bermingham discusses the central role of drawing and the visual arts in Renaissance debates about government and self-government, then considers the relations between seventeenth-century drawing, natural science, and the masculine ideal of the honest gentleman. She also investigates landscape drawing in the context of eighteenth-century views on sens
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