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Title Sense and sensation : English culture in the 18th century.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 50 min., 22 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Note Title from title frames.
Event Originally produced by Illuminations Media in 2002.
Summary Sense and sensation is a lavish exploration of the arts in eighteenth-century London. Written and presented by the eminent historian John Brewer, and drawn from his highly-acclaimed book 'The Pleasures of the Imagination', the film considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created. A world, Brewer argues, that has many parallels with today. John Brewer relates the remarkable stories of entrepreneur Jonathan Tyers, who oversaw the high art and low morals of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, and of Anna Larpent, a voracious reader, gallery-goer and theatre-lover. Actor-manager David Garrick and literary giant Samuel Johnson are other key characters, as is John Gay, the writer of the hugely popular 'The Beggar's Opera'. Extensively illustrated with prints and paintings of the period, the film also features artful reconstructions in its analysis of the arts and their audiences as English high culture first emerged.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Tyers, Jonathan, -1767.
Larpent, Anna Margaretta, 1758-1832.
Garrick, David.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1772.
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Art -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.
Art, Georgian.
Added Author Brewer, John, speaker, author.
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