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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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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