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Books by Lucy Peltz






Brilliant Women(1st Edition)
18th-Century Bluestockings
by Elizabeth Eger, Lucy Peltz
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-14103-0, ISBN: 0-300-14103-3

"During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women and men met to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind. Together, these cultural innovators helped forge new roles for women as influential thinkers, writers, and artists, and their creative achievements were publicly celebrated.Richly illustrated with portraits, prints, and personal artifacts, "Brilliant Women" tells the st ..."






Producing the Past(1st Edition)
Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850 (Routledge Revivals)
by Lucy Peltz, Martin Myrone
Hardcover, 214 Pages, Published 2019 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-36324-3, ISBN: 1-138-36324-3

"These essays evaluate the cultural and poltical implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history."






Love Stories
by Louise Stewart, Peter Funnell, Simon Callow, Marina Warner, Kate Williams, Lucy Peltz
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN-13: 978-1-85514-703-4, ISBN: 1-85514-703-3

"Exploring the changing face of love, from the 16th century to the present, through masterpieces of portraitureDrawing on recent scholarship, Love Stories explores changing ideas of love, and gives readers the opportunity to discover love stories both tragic and transcendent.The stories cover a variety of topics: the muse, scandal, tragedy, literature, the shared studio and life lived in front of the camera. These themes are illustrated ..."






Brilliant Women(1st Edition)
18th-Century Bluestockings
by Elizabeth Eger, Lucy Peltz
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2008 by National Portrait Gallery Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-85514-389-0, ISBN: 1-85514-389-5

"Brilliant Women: 18th-century Bluestockings by Eger, Elizabeth; Peltz, Lucy"






Artists' London(1st Edition)
Holbein to Hirst
by Kit Wedd, Lucy Peltz, Cathy Ross, Museum Of London, Catherine Ross
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2003 by Merrell Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-85894-141-7, ISBN: 1-85894-141-5

"At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the East End of London is the locus for thousands of painters, sculptors, photographers, and printers who have transformed a largely neglected area into a vibrant creative quarter. The migration of artists and galleries to the East End over the last thirty years is only the latest example of the regeneration of a hitherto unpromising part of the city. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, ..."






Producing the Past
Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 17001850
by Lucy Peltz
214 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-36326-7, ISBN: 1-138-36326-X

"These essays evaluate the cultural and poltical implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history."






London Eats Out 1500-2000(1st Edition)
500 Years of Capital Dining
by Hazel Forsyth, Edwina Ehrman, Rory O'connell, Cathy Ross, Lucy Peltz, Jacqui Pearce, Museum Of London
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2001 by Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-85667-516-4, ISBN: 0-85667-516-4

"This lavishly illustrated book offers a cultural survey of the Londoner's eating habits from 1500 to the present day. In a series of well-researched and nicely footnoted essays, London Eats Out opens the door to the public eating that was a critical component of urban life. Attractively illustrated, London Eats Out focuses on the day to day comestibles, and how they were brought to the public; it is a fascinating and largely neglected ..."






Producing the Past(Illustrated)
Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice, 1700-1850 (Reinterpreting Classicism) (Reinterpreting Classicism)
by Martin Myrone, Lucy Peltz
Hardcover, 214 Pages, Published 1999 by Ashgate Pub Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-84014-275-4, ISBN: 1-84014-275-8

"Antiquarianism, which had its roots in Renaissance thought, was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The antiquarian work of collecting, compiling and presenting material which exposed the past was seminal to the formation of social and national identities. These essays evaluate the cultural and political implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how ..."






Facing the Text
Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britain, 1769-1840
by Lucy Peltz
Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 2017 by Huntington Library Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87328-261-1, ISBN: 0-87328-261-2

"During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of books were customized with prints and drawings in a practice called extra-illustration. These books were often massively extended, lavishly bound, and prized by their owners as objects of display, status, and exchange. The scale of these compilations as well as their interdisciplinary nature - at once literary texts, printed books, art collections, and indexes of visual cultu ..."






Creative Quarters(1st Edition)
The Art World in London from 1700 to 2000
by Cathy Wedd Ross, Lucy Peltz, Wedd-Kit-Peltz
Paperback, Published 2001 by Merrell Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-85894-142-4, ISBN: 1-85894-142-3

"160 pages with 145 illustrations"






History of Art(4th Edition)
A Students' Handbook
by Marcia R. Pointon, Lucy Peltz
Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 1997 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-15181-8, ISBN: 0-415-15181-3

"(F. Novotny. Paul Cezanne. Vienna: Phaidon. 1937. pp. 18-19. Italics here. and throughout this chapter are mine.) In Novotny's writing on Cezanne. we see the meta-language of Art History in use. A word like chiaroscuro. which is borrowed from Italian and used widely in European writing on the history of art. means literally 'brightdark' and is employed to describe the variations in tone from dark to light in a painting. But Novotny ..."






Producing the Past
Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850
by Lucy Peltz, Martin Myrone
214 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-429-77677-9, ISBN: 0-429-77677-2

"Heather MacLennan The antiquarian print collector was a significant figure in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, existing as both a cultural historian and connoisseur and contributing to a rich museum heritage through ..."






Producing the Past
Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice, 1700-1850
by Martin Myrone, Lucy Peltz
Published 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0-429-43170-8, ISBN: 0-429-43170-8

"These essays evaluate the cultural and poltical implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history."






Beningbrough Hall
by National Trust, National Portrait Gallery, Lucy Peltz, Jacob Simon
Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2006 by National Trust
ISBN-13: 978-1-84359-219-8, ISBN: 1-84359-219-3

"Unusual book"






Thomas Lawrence(1st Edition)
Regency Power & Brilliance (Yale Center for British Art)
by Cassandra Albinson, Peter Funnell, Lucy Pelz, Lucy Peltz, Marcia R. Pointon
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2011 by Yc British Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16718-4, ISBN: 0-300-16718-0

"Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769â€"1830) was the pre-eminent portraitist of the Regency period, depicting monarchs, political leaders, aristocratic families, society beauties, and actresses with bravura flair. This important book explores Lawrenceâ€TMs political friendships and allegiances along with his exceptional role as witness to significant historical events, and contrasts these with his remarkable ability to depict the charm and innocen ..."

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Cathy Ross

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