ARTH 226 Lecture Notes - Alois Senefelder, Henry Fox Talbot, Industrial Revolution
28 Mar 2013
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Important colonial court of boston - john singleton copley. Wright: moving in midst of highly energized scientific culture of british midlands. Closely connected, patronized by leading figures in lunar society in birmingham - society that integrates important figures like jospeh arkwright, josiah wedgwood. Takes science and technological innovations for centerpieces of his art: ex. An experiment on a bird on the air pump. Taking up highest academic genre of history painting which is essential to dignity of long 18th century. Representing modern actions that happened in particular places and modern times in modern garb. Artist should be as west says, a watchman over his times, projecting over future and to eyes of world, a view of events happening in the present and communicating them to the future. Good grounds for thinking about west as modern artist. Titian being recovered: west, meanwhile, is retreating from scene as whole episode is about to be brought to life (on right)
