Victorian Portraits
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Author | : Phillip Prodger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Art, Victorian |
ISBN | : |
Download Victorian Giants Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This major exhibition is the first to examine the relationship between four ground-breaking Victorian artists: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79), Lewis Carroll (1832-98), Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65) and Oscar Rejlander (1813-75). Drawn from public and private collections internationally, the exhibition features some of the most breath-taking images in photographic history. Influenced by historical painting and frequently associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the four artists formed a bridge between the art of the past and the art of the future, standing as true giants in Victorian photography.--National Portrait Gallery.
Author | : Helen Groth |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199256242 |
Download Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Photography symbolized the possibility of creating an ideal archive to many Victorians, an archive in which no moment or experience need be forgotten. This seductive idea had particular appeal for a generation of writers preoccupied with their own mortality and the erosion of tradition in an age distracted by the ever-changing spectacle of the present. many early photographers and publishers shared this temporal anxiety and the nostalgic archival proclivities it induced, and these mutual preoccupations resulted in the production of the early photographically illustrated books, verse anthologies, lantern shows, guide books, magazines and cartes de visite collections which are the subject of this book. Groth argues that these various early forms of photlographic illustration reflected and contributed to a growing alignment of reading with taking a moment out of time, and of literary experience with the nostalgic reinventions of an emerging heritage culture. Nostalgia operates both creatively and regressively in this context, providing the catalyst for new cultural forms and memory practices, whilst nurturing an intrinsically conservative desire to find a refuge from the exigencies of the present in an increasingly idealized world of tradition, family, nature, and community; a world where time appeared, for a moment at least, to stand still"--Dust jacket.
Author | : Matthew Kaiser |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2011-12-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804778949 |
Download The World in Play Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future. A world in play means two things: a world in flux and a world trapped, like Alice in Wonderland, in a ludic microcosm of itself. The book explores the extent to which play (competition, leisure, mischief, luck, festivity, imagination) pervades nineteenth-century literature and culture and forms the foundations of the modern self. Play made the Victorian world cohere and betrayed the illusoriness of that coherence. This is the paradox of modernity. Kaiser gives an account of how certain Victorian misfits—working-class melodramatists of the 1830s, the reclusive Emily Brontë, free spirits Robert Louis Stevenson and John Muir, mischievous Oscar Wilde—struggled to make sense of this new world. In so doing, they discovered the art of modern life.
Author | : National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Early Victorian Portraits: Text Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Deborah Denenholz Morse |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780754655114 |
Download Victorian Animal Dreams Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The contributors examine various forms of human dominion over animals as manifest in fiction, performance, and the visual arts, as well as in hunting, killing, vivisection, and zookeeping. Distinguished by its acknowledgment of how the Victorians' obsession with animals continues to haunt twenty-first-century animal rights debates, Victorian Animal Dreams provides valuable insight into the burgeoning field of animal studies and points toward future studies of animals in the Victorian period.
Author | : Peter Funnell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Portrait painting, British |
ISBN | : 9781855144354 |
Download A Guide to Victorian & Edwardian Portraits Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Victorians and Edwardians believed passionately in the historical importance of their age and wanted to record the great figures of their time. During Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) Britain became the world's first industrialised commercial power. This wealth, combined with the prestige of the British empire, created an extraordinary source of patronage for portraiture, and a legacy that includes the world's first dedicated gallery of portraits - the National Portrait Gallery, London. This informative and accessible guide reveals an astonishing range of styles,techniques and subjects from the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Illustrations and engaging commentaries on sitters, from Charles Darwin to Virginia Woolf, shed light on the various ways in which people chose to be presented - wherever possible using the actual words of the artists, photographers and their subjects themselves. Although Edward VII's reign lasted for less than a decade (1901-10), he oversaw not only the growth of a more democratic state, but also the development of art education and training for women artists. The Edwardian sitters featured in this book reveal the changing society that came to influence twentieth-century British portraiture.
Author | : Percy Colson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeff A. Menges |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 0486990044 |
Download 120 Great Victorian Fantasy Paintings Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A collection of 120 full-color prints of Victorian-era paintings of fairies, angels, and other benevolent spirits. Includes brief biographic entries on the artists and an alphabetic list of the works. Accompanying CD-ROM contains royalty-free images in JPEG format with Dover Design Manager software for browsing, printing, cropping, and rotating the images.
Author | : PatriziaDi Bello |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351536443 |
Download Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This beautifully illustrated study recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Patrizia Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. The albums of individual women, and the broader feminine culture of collecting and displaying imagesare examined, uncovering the cross-references and fertilizations between women's albums and illustrated periodicals, and demonstrating the way albums and photography, itself, were represented in women's magazines, fashion plates, and popular novels. Bringing a sophisticated eye to overlooked images such as the family photograph, Di Bello not only illustrates their significance as historical documents but elucidates the visual rhetorics at play. In doing so, she identifies the connections between Victorian album-making and the work of modern-day amateurs and artists who use digital techniques to compile and decorate albums with Victorian-style borders and patterns. At a time when photographic album-making is being re-vitalised by digital technologies, this book rewrites the history of photographic albums, placing the female collector at its centre and offering an alternative history of photography focused on its uses rather than on its aesthetic or artistic considerations. It is remarkable in elegantly connecting the history of photography with the fields of material culture and women's studies.
Author | : Grace Seiberling |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1986-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780226744988 |
Download Amateurs, Photography, and the Mid-Victorian Imagination Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"This book results from research which was begun with all the casualness, but inherent seriousness, of the nineteenth-century amateur. I had the privilege of frequent access to the archives of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and began to go through the nineteenth-century photographs in a systematic way. I wanted to go beyond the clichés of the history of photography as a series of often-reproduced masterworks and to find out something about the history of seeing, or at least of thinking about, images in the nineteenth century."--Préface.