Mobilis in mobili : représentations artistiques, scientifiques, tactiques, de la thalassocratie britannique

The present article studies eighteenth-century marine painting as an instance of the aesthetics of motion, contextualising it in the new political culture (that of a sea-power and of dynamic tactics) and the new sciences (dynamics). These parallel concerns give rise to varied practices which are par...

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Main Author: Marie-Madeleine Martinet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2006-01-01
Series:Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1643

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