2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The Royal Academy of Arts and the Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15520169
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	SUZUKI Masashi Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Professor, 大学院人間・環境学研究科, 教授 (50091195)
Project Period (FY)	2003 – 2006
Keywords	Joseph Wright of Derby / The Corinthian Maid / William Hayley / Josiah Wedgwood / Lunar Society / Royal Academy of Arts / Ut Pictura Poesis / Ekphrasis
Research Abstract	With an increasing interest in paintings, sculptures and architectures, Eighteenth-Century England is often referred to as an age of "pictorial turn". In the present research project, an attempt is made to investigate into the complex relations among literary works, art works and aesthetic theories in terms of the politics and society in Eighteenth-Century England. Trying to combine and transverse individual and particular studies on the age helps us grasp in total apparently fragmentary and isolated phenomena of the culture, which were in fact deeply interrelated with each other; they were sometimes interacting, and sometimes opposing or transgressing each other. Detailed analyses were also made of Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses on Art with special reference to the problematic relations of visual and verbal representations.