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School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts
 
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School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts [Hardcover]

James Fenton
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London (24 April 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903973201
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903973202
  • Product Dimensions: 26.5 x 21.3 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 687,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This landmark publication is a meticulously researched and highly illustrated portrait of the development of the Royal Academy from its foundation to the present day. Through unlimited access to the wonderful archives presented in the Royal Academy Library, and interviews with senior Academicians, James Fenton provides a scholarly yet accessible history of this unique institution. As an objective onlooker, he interweaves colourful Academy characters and intrigues with hard facts, shifts in policy and changes in direction that anticipate or respond to events of the time. In particular he looks at the Academy over the twentieth century: the storms the Academy has weathered, its successes and failures, and its hopes and plans for the future.

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Not of great interest 20 July 2009
By Artsreadings TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
This volume is too anecdotal to be of much interest in addition to reading the classic history of the Royal Academy by Sidney C. Hutchinson, and the more recent David H. Solkin (ed.), Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2001).
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