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"A Defect In Their Education": Blake, Haydon, And The Misguided British Audience.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt
"A Defect In Their Education": Blake, Haydon, And The Misguided British Audience.Pdf, Stephen C. Behrendt
Stephen C Behrendt
This essay examines the attitudes of William Blake and Benjamin Robert Haydon to the subject of grand-style history painting and traces their frustrations with an English viewing audience whose tastes both artists considered to be misguided, unimaginative, and generally hostile to the "highest" forms of visual art.