Christiana Herringham And The Edwardian Art Scene

Author : Mary Lago
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0826210244

Get Book

Christiana Herringham and the Edwardian Art Scene by Mary Lago Pdf

Lady Herringham arrived on the Edwardian art scene with a translation of Il Libro dell' Arte o Trattato della Pittura, Cennini's fifteenth-century handbook on fresco and tempera. It aroused new interest in those techniques and led to the founding of the Society of Painters in Tempera in 1901. To preserve Britain's art heritage from buyers abroad, she provided the money that launched the National Art Collections Fund in 1903, creating what is still a vital and authoritative voice in Britain's cultural life. Her work as the only woman on the NACF's first executive committee prepared her to assist in founding the India Society, which urged respect for indigenous Indian traditions of the fine arts and encouraged appreciation for them in England.

Author : Mary Lago
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art patrons
ISBN : 0853316805

Get Book

Christiana Herringham and the Edwardian Art Scene by Mary Lago Pdf

"Christiana Herringham (1852-1929), an expert copyist of the Italian Old Masters, was an extraordinary and accomplished women. Her achievements required a delicate balance, for she had to negotiate old Victorian restrictions in order 'to find and fortify a place for herself' in a male-dominated spheres of fine-art administration and public service ... A distinguished Edwardian scholar, Mary Lago has used her knowledge of the cultural history of the period to bring significant insight into the personal and professional conflicts Lady Herringham faced during a time of limited opportunities for women. Lago also discusses the issue of nationalism in art and the role of colonial imperialism in defining and preserving art. As a postscript, she presents the fascinating possibility that Christian Herringham's experience may have inspired the character of Mrs Moore in E.M. Forester's 'A Passage to India' "--Jacket.

Author : Elizabeth Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135434014

Get Book

The Women's Suffrage Movement by Elizabeth Crawford Pdf

This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement'. It is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women's movement. Drawing on national and local archival sources, the book contains over 400 biographical entries and more than 800 entries on societies in England, Scotland and Wales. Easily accessible and rigorously cross-referenced, this invaluable resource covers not only the political developments of the campaign but provides insight into its cultural context, listing novels, plays and films.

Author : Matthew C. Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429752674

Get Book

British Art for Australia, 1860-1953 by Matthew C. Potter Pdf

Traditional postcolonial scholarship on art and imperialism emphasises tensions between colonising cores and subjugated peripheries. The ties between London and British white settler colonies have been comparatively neglected. Artworks not only reveal the controlling intentions of imperialist artists in their creation but also the uses to which they were put by others in their afterlives. In many cases they were used to fuel contests over cultural identity which expose a mixture of rifts and consensuses within the British ranks which were frequently assumed to be homogeneous. British Art for Australia, 1860–1953: The Acquisition of Artworks from the United Kingdom by Australian National Galleries represents the first systematic and comparative study of collecting British art in Australia between 1860 and 1953 using the archives of the Australian national galleries and other key Australian and UK institutions. Multiple audiences in the disciplines of art history, cultural history, and museology are addressed by analysing how Australians used British art to carve a distinct identity, which artworks were desirable, economically attainable, and why, and how the acquisition of British art fits into a broader cultural context of the British world. It considers the often competing roles of the British Old Masters (e.g. Romney and Constable), Victorian (e.g. Madox Brown and Millais), and modern artists (e.g. Nash and Spencer) alongside political and economic factors, including the developing global art market, imperial commerce, Australian Federation, the First World War, and the coming of age of the Commonwealth.

Author : Mary Lago
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826263315

Get Book

India's Prisoner by Mary Lago Pdf

Edward John Thompson -- novelist, poet, journalist, and historian of India -- was a liberal advocate for Indian culture and political self-determination at a time when Indian affairs were of little general interest in England. As a friend of Nehru, Gandhi, and other Congress Party leaders, Thompson had contacts that many English officials did not have and did not know how to get. Thus, he was an excellent channel for interpreting India to England and England to India.

Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher : Crown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780451497710

Get Book

See You in the Piazza by Frances Mayes Pdf

The bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine. Don’t miss Frances Mayes in PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! “Reading this book is a vacation in itself.”—The New York Times Book Review (Best Travel Books of the Summer) The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous with Italy. But such landmarks only scratch the surface of this magical country's offerings. In See You in the Piazza, Frances Mayes introduces us to the Italy only the locals know, as she and her husband, Ed, eat and drink their way through thirteen regions—from Friuli to Sicily. Along the way, she seeks out the cultural and historic gems not found in traditional guidebooks. Frances conjures the enchantment of the backstreets, the hubbub of the markets, the dreamlike wonder of that space between lunch and dinner when a city cracks open to those who would wander or when a mind is drawn into the pages of a delicious book—and discloses to us the secrets that only someone who is on intimate terms with a place could find.

Author : Susheila Nasta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230392724

Get Book

India in Britain by Susheila Nasta Pdf

Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance of the networks and connections that South Asians established on British soil. Looking at the period 1858-1950, it presents readings of cultural history and points to the urgent need to open up the parameters of this field of study.

Author : Partha Mitter
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861896360

Get Book

The Triumph of Modernism by Partha Mitter Pdf

The tumultuous last decades of British colonialism in India were catalyzed by more than the work of Mahatma Gandhi and violent conflicts. The concurrent upheavals in Western art driven by the advent of modernism provided Indian artists in post-1920 India a powerful tool of colonial resistance. Distinguished art historian Partha Mitter now explores in this brilliantly illustrated study this lesser known facet of Indian art and history. Taking the 1922 Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta as the debut of European modernism in India, The Triumph of Modernism probes the intricate interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism in the evolution of colonial-era Indian art. Mitter casts his gaze across a myriad of issues, including the emergence of a feminine voice in Indian art, the decline of “oriental art,” and the rise of naturalism and modernism in the 1920s. Nationalist politics also played a large role, from the struggle of artists in reconciling Indian nationalism with imperial patronage of the arts to the relationship between primitivism and modernism in Indian art. An engagingly written study anchored by 150 lush reproductions, The Triumph of Modernism will be essential reading for scholars of art, British studies, and Indian history.

Author : John Aplin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317283362

Get Book

The Letters of Philip Webb, Volume IV by John Aplin Pdf

Philip Webb was a British architect known as a founder of the Arts and Crafts movement and also a key member of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. He had a long association with William Morris and was responsible for the design of the hugely influential Red House, Morris’s first home. Webb's letters will be of interest to art and architecture historians.

Author : Sister Nivedita
Publisher : Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788175058934

Get Book

Letters of Sister Nivedita - Volume 1 by Sister Nivedita Pdf

A revised and enlarged edition of the Letters of Sister Nivedita in 2 volumes collected and edited by Prof. Sankari Prasad Basu. It comprises nearly a thousand letters from Sister Nivedita and also includes some received by her. This monumental new edition is to commemorate her 150th Birth Anniversary. The present Volume 1 contains letters penned in the years 1897—1904.

Author : Mary Lago
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780826261014

Get Book

Biographical Passages by Mary Lago Pdf

Author : Alice Eden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351004282

Get Book

Spirituality, Feminism, and Pre-Raphaelitism in Modern British Art and Culture by Alice Eden Pdf

This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three ‘forgotten’ artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism. Thomas Cooper Gotch, Robert Anning Bell and Frederick Cayley Robinson are resituated squarely within the tumultuous social and cultural changes of the period. Becoming visible again, in more inclusive histories, allows such artists not only to re-inhabit but to reshape narratives of modernism, reanimating the scholarly discourse and creating a dynamic cultural history of modern Britain expressed through their striking visions of womanhood. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, gender studies and British studies.

Author : Kate Kennedy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691218557

Get Book

Dweller in Shadows by Kate Kennedy Pdf

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as “Sleep.” Yet his life was shadowed by the trauma of the war and mental illness, and he spent his last fifteen years confined to a mental asylum. In Dweller in Shadows, Kate Kennedy presents the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary and misunderstood artist. A promising student at the Royal College of Music, Gurney enlisted as a private with the Gloucestershire regiment in 1915 and spent two years in the trenches of the Western Front. Wounded in the arm and subsequently gassed during the Battle of Passchendaele, Gurney was recovering in hospital when his first collection of poems, Severn and Somme, was published. Despite episodes of depression, he resumed his music studies after the war until he was committed to an asylum in 1922. At times believing he was Shakespeare and that the “machines under the floor” were torturing him, he nevertheless continued to write and compose, leaving behind a vast body of unpublished work when he died of tuberculosis. Drawing on extensive archival research and spanning literary criticism, history, psychiatry and musicology, this compelling narrative sets Gurney’s life and work against the backdrop of the war and his institutionalisation, probing the links between madness, suffering and creativity. Facing death in the trenches, Gurney hoped that history might not “forget me quite.” This definitive account of his life and work helps ensure that he will indeed be remembered.

Author : Stacey J. Pierson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315311920

Get Book

Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London by Stacey J. Pierson Pdf

The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular remit – to exhibit members’ art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized, and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians, and museum curators. Exhibitions at their grand house in Mayfair brought many private collections and collectors to light, using members’ social connections to draw upon the finest and most diverse objects available. Through their unique mode of presentation, which brought museum-style display and interpretation to a grand domestic-style gallery space, they also brought two forms of curatorial and art historical practice together in one unusual setting, enabling an unrestricted form of connoisseurship, where new categories of art were defined and old ones expanded. The history of this remarkable group of people has yet to be presented and is explored here for the first time. Through a framework of exhibition themes ranging from Florentine painting to Ancient Egyptian art, a study of lenders, objects, and their interpretation paints a picture of private collecting activities, connoisseurship, and art world practice that is surprisingly diverse and interconnected.

Author : Andrea Geddes Poole
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780802099600

Get Book

Stewards of the Nation's Art by Andrea Geddes Poole Pdf

Stewards of the Nation's Art examines the internal tensions between Britain's four main public art galleries' administrative directors, the aristocrats dominating the boards of trustees, and those in the Treasury who controlled the funds as well as board appointments.