The Victorian Painting of Modern Life
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The Victorian Painting of Modern Life

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Victorian Painting of Modern Life

About this book

This text offers a comprehensive and tightly focused account of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings at midcentury.

Contemporary subjects were new and risky in the late 1840s and early 1850s; immensely popular and much debated by 1858; and already falling out of fashion by the mid-1860s. The book follows this story chronologically, moving from the anxious attempts by young artists such as William Powell Frith and William Holman Hunt to capture modern life in a visual language that conveyed both the literal and emotional truths of contemporary experience, through the new genre's explosion into popularity in the later 1850s and early 1860s, and the critical debates (and changing fashions) that led to its diminishment by the end of that decade.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, British studies, visual culture, exhibition culture, museum studies, and the sociology of art.

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Yes, you can access The Victorian Painting of Modern Life by Pamela Fletcher in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & European Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040256992
Edition
0
Topic
Art
Subtopic
European Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsements Page
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication Page
  8. Contents
  9. List of Figures
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction: Defining the Victorian Modern-Life Subject
  12. 1 The Reform of Art
  13. 2 The Response: Looking into the Lives of Others
  14. 3 “The Meaning and Inexhaustibleness of Life”: Defining a Genre
  15. 4 The Here and Now of Modern Life
  16. 5 Shipwreck, Suicide, Sensation, Surface: The Decline of the Modern-Life Subject
  17. Epilogue: Reflections on Modern Life
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index