Topic
Ideology and Power in the English Rural Landscape Paintings of Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
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Throughout the late 18th and early 19th, there is a far- reaching sentiment for rural landscapes and peasantry. The proposed research aims at investigating the peasantry paintings. That is, the view of lower social class mostly living in the rural environment, and which was mostly withdrawn from the urban lifestyle, in English rural landscape painting (Bermingham, 1999; Miller, 2001). The study focuses on the paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, George Morland, and John Constable between the late eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century (Newton, 1978; Nygren and Hayes, 1984). Hence, this is a typological investigation of specific themes and ideas as advanced by the selected artists.
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