The artist as anthropologist : the representation of type and character in Victorian art

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The artist as anthropologist : the representation of type and character in Victorian art

Mary Cowling

Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Bibliography: p. 371-383

Includes index

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内容説明

In the Victorian era, both artists and the public had fixed ideas about physiognomy, which shows how certain features indicate specific mental and moral characteristics. Hence art promoted ideas about individuals, social and racial groups. In particular, the art of W.P.Frith is considered.

目次

  • Physiognomy: the literal view
  • the rules of physiognomy and their application in the Victorian age
  • physiognomy and the artist
  • physiognomy, art and the social classes
  • the artist as anthropologist
  • The "Derby Day" and "Railway Station", specimens from the crowd
  • winners and losers
  • epilogue
  • notes.

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