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Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in England, 1768–1848

This book considers the diverse ways in which the Royal Academy of Arts had an impact upon artists working in Britain, in the decades after its controversial establishment in 1768. An exhibition space, art school and public institution, the Academy also emerges here as the lived microcosm of an art world, in which issues of artistic technique, practice, identity, affiliation and politics were tested and contested. Sarah Monks edited the entire volume, and wrote the introduction as well as one of the nine case studies, all of which derive from a conference she organised with John Barrell and Mark Hallett.