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The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Malcolm Baker

The Marble Index

Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Malcolm Baker

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English
Yale University Press
22 January 2015
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Sculpture; Portraits in art
Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait necessarily implies painting and the assumption that Enlightenment thought is manifest chiefly in French art. By considering the bust and the statue as genres, Malcolm Baker, a leading sculpture scholar, addresses the question of how these seemingly traditional images developed into ambitious forms of representation within a culture in which many core concepts of modernity were being formed. The leading sculptor at this time in Britain was Louis Francois Roubiliac (1702–1762), and his portraits of major figures of the day, including Alexander Pope, Isaac Newton, and George Frederic Handel, are examined here in detail. Remarkable for their technical virtuosity and visual power, these images show how sculpture was increasingly being made for close and attentive viewing. The Marble Index eloquently establishes that the heightened aesthetic ambition of the sculptural portrait was intimately linked with the way in which it could engage viewers familiar with Enlightenment notions of perception and selfhood.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Imprint:   Yale University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 229mm,  Spine: 4mm
Weight:   2.177kg
ISBN:   9780300204346
ISBN 10:   0300204345
Pages:   420
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Malcolm Baker is distinguished professor of art history at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews for The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

This book is beautifully laid out with superb photographs and details of sculpture illustrated, while the dense text provides a penetrating analysis of the subject... This ground-breaking compendium of observation and research accrued through years of experience, curating and teaching demands attentive reading. -Tessa Murdoch, Burlington Magazine -- Tessa Murdoch * Burlington Magazine *


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