Beyond the Frame challenges the history of Victorian art to redefine the relationship between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. While few gallery visitors, art collectors or browsers of the illustrated press would have been aware of feminism, the campaign for women's rights was an increasingly vocal force which provoked debate as much in the columns of Art Journal as in the pages of Punch. In this study, Deborah Cherry discusses painting, sculpture, photography, engravings, embroidery and comic drawings of the period to build a picture of how...
Beyond the Frame challenges the history of Victorian art to redefine the relationship between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitem...
Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and paid work, and many were drawn into controversies about sexuality. This richly documented and compelling study considers painting, sculpture, prints, photography, embroidery and comic drawings as well as major styles such as Pre-Raphaelitism, Neo-Classicism and Orientalism. Drawing on critical theory and post-colonial studies to...
Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady ...
A collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of 'Location'.
Explores the theme of 'Location', including transatlantic exchanges and global connections, and the nature of hospitality that arises in acknowledging migration and diaspora
Questions how important location is in producing, understanding and curating art.
Contributors consider such topics as site-specificity, examinations of the trans-national/trans-cultural, how images/visual forms migrate, and the...
A collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists and commentators on contemporary visual culture on the theme of 'Location'.
A distinguished group of eminent contributors reflect on the writings of Stephen Bann and his influence on the fields of visual studies, art history and cultural history.
A collection of essays reflecting on the influence of Stephen Bann on the fields of visual studies, art history and cultural history.
Written by a distinguished group of eminent scholars.
Engages with a wide range of subjects from French art and architecture to histories of the garden and painting in China.
Discusses and analyses many of the key...
A distinguished group of eminent contributors reflect on the writings of Stephen Bann and his influence on the fields of visual studies, art history a...
A collection of essays celebrating Mieke Bal - one of Europe's foremost scholars in art history and visual studies, with a stellar international reputation.
Brings together contributions by senior and younger scholars in the fields of art history and visual studies who reflect on Mieke Bal's writings and art practice, assessing her contribution and legacies
The first collection to consider her writing and art in depth, and to develop and extend her thinking in substantial ways
Themes include some of Bal's most important ideas and concepts in the visual field, such...
A collection of essays celebrating Mieke Bal - one of Europe's foremost scholars in art history and visual studies, with a stellar international reput...
Leading international scholars and younger researchers address issues such as museum display, collecting, the creation of visual spectacles, institutional histories, curatorial strategies, cultural exclusion and definitions of heritage.
An authoritative analysis on the way that art and the visual are displayed and presented
Explores a variety of cultural contexts and historical periods
A benchmark collection addressing specific displays and notable objects alongside the politics of spectacle and questions of audience
Leading international scholars and younger researchers address issues such as museum display, collecting, the creation of visual spectacles, instituti...
South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Monuments have been created, destroyed and rescued by competing communities and incoming empires in the making and re-making of history, identity and memory.
This collection brings together an international cohort of senior scholars and younger researchers to examine the vast diversity of monuments (and conceptions of monuments) in South Asia from the 1850s to the present. The chapters investigate what constitutes a monument, and interrogate the conditions for its survival, demise or recycling. To explore the afterlives of...
South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Monuments have been created, destroyed and rescued by competing communities and incoming ...
