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Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… conclusion of a peace treaty. The setting and ornaments contributed to familiarising the visitors with newly fashionable visual and musical culture: Italianate practices such as masquerades, exoticism with a Chinese pavilion, and concerts in the Rotunda which … Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Pleasure gardens Politeness Luxury Spectacle Entertainement Masquerade Exoticism Visual culture Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of entertainment which flourished in the eighteenth …

Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]

… sphere and fostered disparate forms of social interactions on their premises. Related to the growing commodification of culture as expressed in corresponding forms of leisure, they can also be linked to the rising significance of culturally conditioned notions such as taste, fashion or visibility. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Pleasure visuality entertainment Vauxhall Ranelagh Gardens Pleasure gardens were a particular type of eighteenth-century sociable … interactions. Testifying to the rising commodification of culture, spaces like these also record the importance of visuality as a significant element of sociability. Seeing and being seen was conditioned by the gardens’ very …

Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]

… a public, who, with the exception of the lower classes, excluded by an entrance fee, could share in the experience of visual sociability. At the end of the century, because of its inner conflicts, the Academy was criticized for its anti-sociability. Places > Institutions Mots-clés Artistic sociability Anti-sociability Visual sociability Dining Exhibition Somerset House The Royal Academy of Arts, was founded in 1768. It had been preceded … (alias Peter Pindar). 7 6 . Holger Hoock, The King’s Artists: the Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003), p. 219. 7 . Anthony Pasquin, A Critical Guide to the Exhibition of the …

Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]

… function past the performance event, as an object of fascination for collectors and their associates. Objects > Print culture Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Theatre Print culture entertainment advertisement Covent Garden Drury Lane … of lampoon is the Duchess of Devonshire’s support for the campaign of Charles James Fox: 14 . John Barrell, ‘Radicalism, Visual Culture, and Spectacle in the 1790s’, Romanticism on the Net (n° 46, 2007), p. 20. 15 . This has also been … Reading section’). As a result of their ability to point to a particular historical moment—and their indisputable visual intrigue—playbills are a popular object of collection. Many surviving examples are available to scholars because …

Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]

… > Politics & Society Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés masculinity Rank Violence Rape culture Literature The term ‘rake’, short for ‘rakehell’, has been used to describe a licentious man of loose morals … the excesses of his new rakish lifestyle. Hogarth’s moralising series announced the entry of the rake archetype into the visual arts, and has remained to this day one of its most evocative representations, adapted into an opera by Stravinsky … sociability and expectations towards upper-class men throughout the period. … masculinity … Rank … Violence … Rape culture … Literature … Rake …

Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… The wealth and competitive elegance involved in fashionable dress in particular, were truly symbolic of the growing culture of refined sociability, luxury and consumerism. Fashion became a form of social communication: a means by which to impress one’s social circle and gain their admiration. Dress was a means of public exposure, a visual and imitable symbol of rank, wealth and refinement, which in its imitation, and as a result frequently changing … and esteem at the elegance of those, whom even our reason would teach us to contemn’. 3  Dress not only offered a visual symbol of rank and wealth, but could also emanate taste, allow the wearer an air of refinement, or even …