Sporting Art in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social and Political History by Stephen Deuchar - 1988

Yale University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paul Mellon Centre BA, 1988-10-26. Hardcover. Good.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Paul Mellon Centre BA. Used - Like New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. First. hardcover. fine/very good. Color plates, many b/w text Illus. 4to, green cloth, d.w. sunned on spine portion and top of front portion. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1988). A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

New Haven, Ct: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1988. Hardcover. As New. Green cloth with color pictorial dustjacket. 195 pp., 140 mostly bw illustrations, some color plates.

Yale University Press. Used - Like New. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. First edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 23cm), [viii], 195pp. 140 illustrations (mostly in b&w, some in colour). Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Minor spotting to the edges of the text block, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0300041160

Paul Mellon Centre BA, 1988 4to (29.5 cm), VIII, 195 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "English sporting art emerged as a distinctive genre in the early years of the eighteenth century. At the same time, the rural pastimes it depicted came under increasing critical scrutiny. In this handsome book, Stephen Deuchar presents the first full account of this artistic phenomenon, combining a cogent analysis of the ideologies lying behind these sports with the history of their imagery. Deuchar explains that although the activities addressed by sporting pictures were traditionally practised by the upper levels of society, they seemed to encourage a kind of behaviour that ran sharply against the moral, social, and economic ideals espoused by the ruling classes themselves. Some sporting artists - most notably George Stubbs - attempted on behalf of their patrons to resolve this contradiction by presenting rural sports in a favourable, implicitly responsible light. Others, encouraged by the… Read More