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
Cambridge University Press, 1989
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 371-383
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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