Kate Retford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5441201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Retford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Retford |
| SIGNATURE | RETFORD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canisius College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philippe Ariès’s ‘discovery of childhood’
Philippe Ariès’s Centuries of Childhood is now over 50 years old, but it holds its place as a pioneering study of childhood, education and the family. Furthermore, Ariès’s use of images continues to attract comment. This article reflects on the role of visual material in Aries's narrative, subsequent criticism, and more recent work in the field by both historians and art historians. Building on an important discussion of the same subject by Antho…
‘The small Domestic & conversation style’
This article focuses on two conversation pieces by the eighteenth-century Scottish artist David Allan: The Family of the 4th Duke of Atholl (1780) and Sir James Grant (1785). One of the most vital characteristics of the conversation piece was its delineation of customary detail: the ‘mode & manner of the time & habits’, to use George Vertue’s phrase. These paintings feature detailed description of Highland costume, Highland custom and Highland co…
The Evidence of the Conversation Piece
The picture discussed apparently represents a ‘snapshot’ of eighteenth-century family life. However, it is argued in this article that it is problematic to approach such visual material as if it can render direct evidence of a past, historical reality. This is not simply because art may distort or misrepresent its subject matter. Such an approach is also in danger of ignoring the potential evidence embodied in the representation itself – in this …
A Death in the Family
The Politics of Posterity
Journal Article The Politics of Posterity Get access Matthew Craske, The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720–1770 ( Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art: New Haven and London, 2007), 60 b&w illns, 256 pp., ISBN: 0300135416, £45.00 hardback Kate Retford Kate Retford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
History's Beauties
As an institution founded to illustrate ‘the civil, ecclesiastical, or literary history of the country’, it might have been assumed that women scarcely figured in the newly founded National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in the mid-nineteenth century. However, as revealed in Lara Perry's insightful new book, its publication neatly coincident with the Gallery's 150th anniversary celebrations, this was far from being the case. Perry offers analysis of the …
Sensibility and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century Family Portrait
This article analyses Nathaniel Hone's portrait of Lord and Lady Scarsdale (1761) and the significance that such images have for our understanding of the eighteenth-century family. It first discusses the imagery of the painting and places it in the context of the shift that occurred in family portraiture between 1740 and 1760. Whilst earlier images presented stiffly posed figures, later portraits such as that by Hone came to focus on the sitters'…
Philippe Ariès’s ‘discovery of childhood’
Philippe Ariès’s Centuries of Childhood is now over 50 years old, but it holds its place as a pioneering study of childhood, education and the family. Furthermore, Ariès’s use of images continues to attract comment. This article reflects on the role of visual material in Aries's narrative, subsequent criticism, and more recent work in the field by both historians and art historians. Building on an important discussion of the same subject by Antho…
The Evidence of the Conversation Piece
The picture discussed apparently represents a ‘snapshot’ of eighteenth-century family life. However, it is argued in this article that it is problematic to approach such visual material as if it can render direct evidence of a past, historical reality. This is not simply because art may distort or misrepresent its subject matter. Such an approach is also in danger of ignoring the potential evidence embodied in the representation itself – in this …
Sensibility and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century Family Portrait
This article analyses Nathaniel Hone's portrait of Lord and Lady Scarsdale (1761) and the significance that such images have for our understanding of the eighteenth-century family. It first discusses the imagery of the painting and places it in the context of the shift that occurred in family portraiture between 1740 and 1760. Whilst earlier images presented stiffly posed figures, later portraits such as that by Hone came to focus on the sitters'…
History's Beauties
As an institution founded to illustrate ‘the civil, ecclesiastical, or literary history of the country’, it might have been assumed that women scarcely figured in the newly founded National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in the mid-nineteenth century. However, as revealed in Lara Perry's insightful new book, its publication neatly coincident with the Gallery's 150th anniversary celebrations, this was far from being the case. Perry offers analysis of the …
The Politics of Posterity
Journal Article The Politics of Posterity Get access Matthew Craske, The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720–1770 ( Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art: New Haven and London, 2007), 60 b&w illns, 256 pp., ISBN: 0300135416, £45.00 hardback Kate Retford Kate Retford [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
The Evidence of the Conversation Piece
The picture discussed apparently represents a ‘snapshot’ of eighteenth-century family life. However, it is argued in this article that it is problematic to approach such visual material as if it can render direct evidence of a past, historical reality. This is not simply because art may distort or misrepresent its subject matter. Such an approach is also in danger of ignoring the potential evidence embodied in the representation itself – in this …
A Death in the Family
‘The small Domestic & conversation style’
This article focuses on two conversation pieces by the eighteenth-century Scottish artist David Allan: The Family of the 4th Duke of Atholl (1780) and Sir James Grant (1785). One of the most vital characteristics of the conversation piece was its delineation of customary detail: the ‘mode & manner of the time & habits’, to use George Vertue’s phrase. These paintings feature detailed description of Highland costume, Highland custom and Highland co…
Philippe Ariès’s ‘discovery of childhood’
Philippe Ariès’s Centuries of Childhood is now over 50 years old, but it holds its place as a pioneering study of childhood, education and the family. Furthermore, Ariès’s use of images continues to attract comment. This article reflects on the role of visual material in Aries's narrative, subsequent criticism, and more recent work in the field by both historians and art historians. Building on an important discussion of the same subject by Antho…
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