Art and the Victorian middle class : money and the making of cultural identity

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Art and the Victorian middle class : money and the making of cultural identity

Dianne Sachko Macleod

Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Includes biographical appendix of 146 collectors

Bibliography: p. 490-513

Includes index

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内容説明

This is the first study of middle-class collection practices in nineteenth-century England. It examines the Victorian art world from the perspective of the businessmen whose successes during the Industrial Revolution caused them to turn to art as a means of carving out an identity of their own that was distinct from the leisured existence of the aristocracy and gentry. Such patrons created a market for early-Victorian narrative paintings which nostalgically perpetuated the oral traditions of village life, mid-Victorian scenes which glorified the accomplishments and moral probity of urban dwellers, and late-Victorian eroto-religious subjects which promised escapist pleasures to the world-weary buyer. Macleod's analysis of class, motivations and patterns of consumption among patrons is supplemented by an indispensable appendix of collectors, making this an essential work of reference. Awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History for 1997 by the American Philosophical Society and the Historians of British Art Book Prize for best book in nineteenth-century studies.

目次

  • 1. Nouveaux riches or New Order? Early-Victorian collectors in London
  • 2. Culture and middle-class identity in Manchester and Birmingham
  • 3. Pre-Raphaelitism: progressive or regressive?
  • 4. Money and mainstream mid-Victorian values
  • 5. The Aesthetic movement: L'Art et l'argent
  • Epilogue: mimesis versus modernism
  • Appendix: major Victorian collectors
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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