REG: RE: 18th century art history course texts
David R. Evans
If you're using the grand tour as the conceptual link between England and
Italy, you might think about Christopher Hibbert's pretty good book on
the grand tour, called, interestingly enough, _The Grand Tour_. I have a
copy in paper, I think (it's at home, and I'm in my office), and it's a
"popular" rather than "scholarly" book, so it probably wouldn't cost a huge
amount of money. The catalogue from _The Treasure Houses of Britain_
exhibition at the National Gallery 1986(?) also makes a big case for the
grand tour's influence, and there's a good article as well in an edited
volume called _The Fashioning and Functioning of the English Country House_,
also published by the National Gallery (I got a copy there, last summer,
remaindered, for less than $5). Finally, Gervase Jackson-Stops's book,
published in conjunction with the _Treasurehouses_ exhibit, also talks about
the grand tour as a source of material culture exchange. (It's called,
_The English Country House: A Grand Tour_).
I hope all this isn't redundant. (I wrote my dissertation on the grand tour,
so it's overflowing from my fingertips most of the time....)
Best wishes, David Evans
Cornell College
DEV...@Cornell-Iowa.edu