Victorian painting

Author(s)

• Lambourne, Lionel

Bibliographic Information

Victorian painting

Lionel Lambourne

Phaidon, 1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [504]-505) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This text presents an overview of one of the most fertile and exuberant periods in the history of art. It embraces not only the UK but also the English-speaking countries linked to England by the cultural ties of empire and emigration. Long out of fashion, Victorian painting is now enjoyed in its own right. This book is divided by themes into 22 chapters, and features anecdotes and colour illustrations from the period. It can also serve as a reference work as it features the work of some lesser-known artists, as well as the famous and well-loved images.

Table of Contents

• The Victorian art establishment
• mural painting - the Fresco revival
• the good and the great - portrait painting
• oils versus watercolours - landscape painting
• the narrative impulse - Genre painting
• "virtual reality" - the panorama
• sporting and animal painting
• childhood and sentiment
• fairy painting
• "all human life is here" - cross-sections of society
• the nude and classicism
• the Pre-Raphaelites
• the frailer sex and the fallen woman
• hard times - social realism
• parting - emigration and war
• the last romantics - aesthetes and symbolists
• impressionism in Britain
• women artists
• the transatlantic exchange
• imperial connections - painters abroad
• the end of an era.

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Details

• NCID: BA44153964
• ISBN:
  • 0714837768
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 512 p.
• Size: 30 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 759.05
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Painting, Victorian