Representations of G.F. Watts: Art Making in Victorian Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138620384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Colin Trodd

Opis

Originally published in 2004, this book is a modern account of the full range of Watts's different artistic interests and practices. Offering fresh approaches to his allegorical and mythological paintings, it also traces examines the institutional and biographical factors behind his public profile.

Spis treści

Introduction: generations of Watts, Colin Trodd and Stephanie Brown; Part I Transfiguring the Wattsian Body: The pointless meaningfulness of Watts's work, Paul Barlow; Between Homer and Ovid: metamorphoses of the 'grand style' in G. F. Watts, Elizabeth Prettejohn; 'To intensify the sense of teeming life': Watts and the twilight of transcendence, Colin Trodd; Indefinite expansion: Watts and the physicality of sculpture, Stephanie Brown. Part II Determining the Wattsian Space: Watts, historical thought and the schemes of painting in the 1840s, Janet McLean; Nationalizing Watts: the Hall of Fame and the National Portrait Gallery, Lara Perry; Illuminating experience: Watts and the subject of portraiture, Colin Trodd; Watts and the National Gallery of British Art, Alison Smith; Watts, women, philanthropy and the home arts, Shelagh Wilson; Bibliography.

O autorze

Colin Trodd