Daniel Robbis et Reena Suleman
Leighton House Museum, London
The History of the Royal Academy 1768-1986
Hutchinson, Sidney C.
Robert Royce Limited, London, 1986.
In-8, reliure pleine toile éditeur sous jaquette illustrée en couleur, 314 pp.
Avec 92 illustrations en noir et en couleur en hors texte.
Mention de seconde édition ; la première remontait à 1968.
Bon état d'ensemble. Coiffes émoussées, bordures de la jaquette frottées en certains endroits avec deux petites déchirures.
Preface, by Roger de Grey. - Foreword to the 1968 edition, by Sir Thomas Monnington - Introduction - 1. Heritage - 2. Forerunners : Tuition - 3. Forerunners : Exhibitions - 4. Birth : 1768 - 5. Pall Mall and Old Somerset House : 1769-1779 - 6. Somerset House till the Death of Reynolds : 1780-1792 - 7. West's first period as President : 1792-1805 - 8. The last of the Founders : 1806-1820 - 9. Final phase at Somerset House : 1820-1836 - 10. First period in Trafalgar Square : 1837-1850 - 11. Second Period in Trafalgar Square : 1850-1868 - 12. First Decade at Burlington House - 13. The Palmy Days : 1879-1896 - 14. Into the Twentieth Century : 1896-1914 - 15. The Great War and its Effects : 1914-1928 - 16. Uncertain Peace : 1929-1939 - 17. The Second World War and its Effects : 1939-1954 - 18. Towards the Bicentenary : 1955-1968 - 19. Upward still on Onward : 1968-1975 - 20. Try and Try again : 1976-1982 - 21. Present and Future : 1982-1986 and beyond - Notes - Appendices : The Instrument of Foundation. - Alphabetical List of Members from the Foundation. - Chronological List of Officers and Professors. - Chronological List of Honorary Members. - Subject-Index of Exhibitions. - Trust and Special Funds - Bibliography - Index.
Sidney Hutchison a été bibliothécaire à la Royal Academy à partir de 1949 à 1969, avant d'en être le Secrétaire de 1968 à 1982.
"One advantage we shall have in our Academy, which no other nation can boast, we shall have nothing to unlearn". So said Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy, in his opening address in January 1769.
"The Academy, in fact, was to embody the best features of foreign institutions and avoid their mistakes. Under royal patronage, but never under state control, its aims were to promote the arts of design, to provide free teaching and, by holding exhibitions, to link artists with the general public."
The original edition of this history, written to mark the bicentenary of the Academy's foundation in 1768, was the first full-length study for over a century.