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January 28, 2009
Robert Hoozee British Vision: Observation and Imagination in British Art, 1750–1950 Exh. cat. Brussels and Ghent: Mercatorfonds and Museum voor Kunsten Gent, 2008. 424 pp.; 350 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780801446948)

Exhibition schedule: Museum voor Kunsten Gent, October 6, 2007–January 13, 2008

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.10

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British Vision: Observation and Imagination in British Art, 1750–1950 is the catalogue of the first major exhibition installed at the newly renovated Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent—an occasion for continentals to examine a distinctly British artistic tradition. Conceived by the museum’s director, Robert Hoozee, the exhibition aimed to trace and highlight links between works from the mid-eighteenth century (when, for the first time, native artists publicly staked out their own reputation) through to the...