Narrating modernity : the British problem picture, 1895-1914
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Narrating modernity : the British problem picture, 1895-1914
(British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings)
Ashgate, c2003
- alk. paper
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-183) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Problem pictures were very popular during the Edwardian period. These pictures invited multiple interpretations of modern life and were often slightly risque. Pamela Fletcher explores how these works of art engaged with questions of gender, sexuality and identity during their heyday.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - narrating modernity
- Towards a definition of the problem picture
- Woman as problem
- Modern art and modern life
- The fashionable problem picture - viewers and viewings
- The "problem picture" as modernism's Other
- The problem picture and the creation of an audience for modern art.
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