A study of the beginnings of the idea of the ‘modern artist’. Not set in Paris or New York, as you might expect, but London among the students at the Royal Academy between 1769 to 1830.
Making the Modern Artist – Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain
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A fascinating account of the gradual triumph of one method of sorting data, from the Great Library of Alexandria to the present decline in our digital age.
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Translated from the German, this is a substantial book on the man who led Europe out of the Napoleonic chaos; the father of realpolitik, according to Kissinger.
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
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Marr has a gift of presenting complex issues with clarity; here he uses a diverse cast to show where we are and how we got here.
Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged
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