Download or read book Living with the Royal Academy written by Professor John Barrell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with the Royal Academy directs attention to the textures of artists' relationships with the Royal Academy in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This essay collection considers the Academy as a lived organism, one whose most effective role was as a reference point around which artists operated in their relationships with each other and with artistic practice itself.