Scottish Artists in Historical and Contemporary Context by Bill Hare sampler
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Contents<br />
Foreword <strong>by</strong> Professor Alex<strong>and</strong>er (S<strong>and</strong>y) Moffat 9<br />
Introduction 11<br />
Section One Essays on <strong>Scottish</strong> Art <strong>and</strong> Cultural History<br />
Signs of the Times: <strong>Scottish</strong> Art <strong>and</strong> Industry 17<br />
Made From Girders: Photography <strong>in</strong> Industrial Scotl<strong>and</strong> 23<br />
Wha’s Like Us?: <strong>Scottish</strong> Art <strong>and</strong> Cultural Identity 25<br />
Past <strong>and</strong> Present: Does <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Contemporary</strong> Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g Have a Past? 29<br />
Mercure d’Écosse: Henry Raeburn’s ‘Skat<strong>in</strong>g M<strong>in</strong>ister’ 44<br />
Desperately Seek<strong>in</strong>g Self: A History of <strong>Scottish</strong> Self-Portraiture 51<br />
Athena <strong>in</strong> ‘The Boeotia of the North’: The Newly Restored<br />
Cast Collection of Ed<strong>in</strong>burgh College of Art 67<br />
Section Two Essays on <strong>Scottish</strong> Modern Art<br />
A Modern Bestiary: <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Artists</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Animal World 76<br />
Glasgow Belongs to Whom?: Civic Identity <strong>and</strong> the Visual Arts 79<br />
Beyond Appearances: Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> Pictur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>Scottish</strong> Modern<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>Contemporary</strong> Art 85<br />
Throw<strong>in</strong>g Light on the <strong>Scottish</strong> Endarkenment: Art <strong>and</strong> Unreason<br />
1945 to Present 87<br />
<strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Artists</strong> <strong>in</strong> Venice 92<br />
Section Three Essays on <strong>Scottish</strong> Abstract Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Makars of Beauty: <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Contemporary</strong> Abstract Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g 98<br />
The Beholder <strong>and</strong> the Beheld: A Philosophical Approach to<br />
<strong>Scottish</strong> Modern Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g 101<br />
A Po<strong>in</strong>t <strong>in</strong> Time – the Eternal Now: Abstraction <strong>in</strong> <strong>Scottish</strong><br />
Modern Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g 105<br />
Section Four Essays on <strong>Scottish</strong> Figurative Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Body Politics: Representation of the Figure <strong>in</strong> Recent<br />
<strong>Scottish</strong> Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g 112<br />
The Nude <strong>and</strong> the Naked: The Representation of the Female Figure<br />
<strong>in</strong> <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Contemporary</strong> Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g 118<br />
Objects of Desire: <strong>Scottish</strong> Modern Still Life Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g 122
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