High Ideals and the Dismal Science: Atlantic Britain at the Tate Britain
Neil Simpson
|
Posted 14.02.2012
|
Home
Read More:
Slavery,
George Washington,
Joseph Wright,
Joshua Reynolds,
Death of General Wolfe,
David Hume,
Thomas Staniforth,
Thomas Jefferson,
Tate Britain,
Atlantic World,
William Woollett,
Benjamin West,
UK Art,
UK Culture,
Home News
This exhibition highlights how solid economic bonds can be extinguished, almost overnight in a hail of political wrangling and arguing. It is prescient, although perhaps without meaning to be. Indeed, just as it is impossible to tell the story of Britain after 1945 without reference to Europe, so to is it impossible to tell the story of 18th-century Britain without reference to the Atlantic.
