The Nation Made Real Art and National Identity in Western Europe, 1600-1850
The Nation Made Real Art and National Identity in Western Europe, 1600-1850
- ISBN 13:
9780199662975
- ISBN 10:
0199662975
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 02/08/2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
After a brief description of the main themes of the visual record of Dutch nation-building in the seventeenth century, Anthony D. Smith presents an original comparative analysis of the rise of 'national art' in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Subsequent chapters address the emblems and oath-swearing ceremonies of the citizen nation, the evocation of native poetic landscapes, the exempla virtutis of national heroes, ancient and modern, and the funerary memorials of martyrs and soldiers who sacrificed themselves for the nation in Britain and France. The conclusion highlights the common elements and the main differences in the French and British trajectories of artistic and national development. Illustrated with striking images, The Nation Made Real offers a new interpretation of the role of visual culture in the formation of nations and national identity among the educated classes in Western Europe.