Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting

ISBN-13: 9781859281529 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 216 str.

Pamela G. Nunn

Opis

During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society. This book of essays examines Victorian painting in the light of this "woman question". The art and artists are considered in a socio-political context.

Recenzje

’Pamela Gerrish Nunn is to be praised for her examination of various types of problem pictures for Victorian women artists and general viewers’ Women Artist News Book Review ’Problem Pictures is wide-ranging in its scope, opening up a number of new areas while pursuing a consistent theme. Many ’lost’ paintings are brought into the scholarly arena...a pioneering study’ Apollo

Spis treści

Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Gentlemen, geniuses and interlopers; ’Delightful but limited’; Trouble in paradise; Broken blossoms; The Domestication of history; ’Look homeward, angel!’; In Venus’ train; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Pamela Gerrish Nunn