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People, Places and Piazzas
Charles Hodge Mackie, R.S.A., R.S.W. (1862-1920) was well-connected in artistic circles. In France, he met Gauguin, Vuillard and the Nabis; he was a close friend of E.A. Hornel; and he taught Laura Knight how to lay out her palette: some of the people by whom he was influenced and whom he, in turn, helped. In terms of places, his art and life are associated with a variety of locations, including Kirkcudbright, Staithes, Paris, Normandy, Italy, and Venice and its piazzas. In Edinburgh, where his studio was located, he made a significant contribution to the city's artistic and social life, as a founder member and chairman of the Society of Scottish Artists, as well as carrying out mural commissions for Patrick Geddes. He also worked in an impressive range of media: oils, watercolours, murals, woodblock prints, tooled leather and sculpture.
Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment
This book considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews, exploring the ways in which 388 men secured posts in three Scottish universities between 1690 and 1806. Most professors were political appointees vetted and supported by political factions and their leaders. This comprehensive study explores the improving agenda of political patrons and of those they served and relates this to the Scottish Enlightenment. Emerson argues that what was happening in Scotland was also occurring in other parts of Europe where, in relatively autonomous localities, elite patrons also shaped things as they wished them to be. The role of patronage in the Enlightenment is essential to any understanding of its origins and course.
Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707-1800
Studies the book trade during the age of Fergusson and BurnsOver 40 leading scholars come together in this volume to scrutinise the development and impact of printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books.The 18th century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries.
‘News from the Republick of Letters’: Scottish Students, Charles Mackie and the United Provinces, 1650-1750
The late seventeenth century Netherlands have traditionally been viewed as the intellectual entrepot of Europe in general, and for Scotland in particular. Scottish students flocked in large numbers to the Dutch universities, bringing back ideas and books which influenced Scottish learning well into the eighteenth century. This book is the first full-length study of Scots in the United Provinces between 1650 and 1750. It analyses their numbers at the Dutch universities, the education they received and the impact this had on Scottish learning, on the eve of the Enlightenment, showing that the Scottish-Dutch relationship provided the infrastructure, which allowed Scotland to take part in a wider Republic of Letters and that its culture was increasingly characterised by it.
Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2
The first thorough study of the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns.
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