G F Watts

Author : Veronica Franklin Gould
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300105770

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G.F. Watts by Veronica Franklin Gould Pdf

George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first in-depth biography of Watts, sheds new light on the pioneering spirit and breadth of mind of the artist. Drawing on Watts’s abundant personal correspondence and diaries and an array of other contemporary documents, the book chronicles the artist’s career and personal life, including his friendships with Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, William Gladstone, and Alfred Tennyson and his relationships with a series of singular women. The book also examines Watts’s wide reforming zeal and political agenda as well as his role and dealings in the Victorian art world.

Author : Colin Trodd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429535543

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Representations of G.F. Watts by Colin Trodd Pdf

Originally published in 2004. Once the most popular Victorian artist, G. F. Watts was also a complex and elusive figure. Influenced by evolutionary theory, he reinterpreted the tradition of the classical body, while his philanthropic and educational interests informed projects for a more affective public art. This book is the first modern account of the full range of Watts's different artistic interests and practices. Offering fresh approaches to his historical, allegorical and mythological paintings, it also traces his increasingly radical approach to portraiture and sculpture and examines the institutional and biographical factors behind his immense public profile. Together the essays present a comprehensive analysis of Watts's work and his vital relationship to the intellectual, cultural and social forces of his time.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781602068650

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G.F. Watts by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies-he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" or "conservative," for instance-across a wide variety of avenues: he was an arts critic, historian, playwright, novelist, columnist, and poet. His witty, humorous style earned him the title of the "prince of paradox," and his works-80 books and nearly 4,000 essays-remain among the most beloved in the English language. First published in 1904, this is Chesterton's analysis of English painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts. One of his first books, it explores, through Chesterton's own artistic eye, the meanings and the beauty of the work of one of the most honored artists of his day, and remains an incisive masterpiece of critical thought. This replica edition includes all the original illustrations, including the beautiful sepia tones of Watts' paintings.

Author : David Peters Corbett
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0271023619

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The World in Paint by David Peters Corbett Pdf

Familiar narratives about the nature of English modernism, &"tradition,&" and &"periodization,&" together with the &"literary&" character of English art from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, are abandoned in this innovative and important book. In their stead, David Peters Corbett proposes a new way of looking at this painting from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Vorticists. Arguing that art history has been too reluctant to confront the fundamental question of how and what the consistency and application of paint signifies, Corbett investigates the work of English artists&—among them Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Leighton, Watts, Whistler, Sickert, and the modernists of 1914 &—through a historical examination of the meanings of the visual in English culture. By revealing that for many artists and thinkers the visual promised to deliver a more profound understanding of the world than language, the book offers a new reading of the art of the period between 1848 and the First World War.

Author : Katharine Cockin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317323082

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Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence by Katharine Cockin Pdf

In this essay collection, established experts and new researchers, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), as well as Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll and some less familiar figures.

Author : Veronica Franklin Gould,Richard Ormond,Watts Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115125101

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The Vision of G.F. Watts OM RA (1817-1904) by Veronica Franklin Gould,Richard Ormond,Watts Gallery Pdf

'The Vision of G.F. Watts' is a scholarly, illustrated review of the most imaginative artist of the Victorian era.

Author : David Bindman
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789147315

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‘Race Is Everything’ by David Bindman Pdf

A timely and revealing look at the intertwined histories of science, art, and racism. ‘Race Is Everything’ explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it. David Bindman looks at race in general, but with particular concentration on attitudes toward and representations of people of African and Jewish descent. He argues that behind all racial ideas of the period lies the belief that outward appearance—and especially skull shape, as studied in the pseudoscience of phrenology—can be correlated with inner character and intelligence, and that these could be used to create a seemingly scientific hierarchy of races. The book considers many aspects of these beliefs, including the skull as a racial marker; ancient Egypt as a precedent for Southern slavery; Darwin, race, and aesthetics; the purported “Mediterranean race”; the visual aspects of eugenics; and the racial politics of Emil Nolde.

Author : Corrinne Chong,Michelle Foot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781040028889

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Art, Music, and Mysticism at the Fin de Siècle by Corrinne Chong,Michelle Foot Pdf

This edited volume explores the dialogue between art and music with that of mystical currents at the turn of the twentieth century. The volume draws on the most current research from both art historians and musicologists to present an interdisciplinary approach to the study of mysticism’s historical importance. The chapters in this edited volume gauge the scope of different interpretations of mysticism and illuminate how an exchange between the sister arts unveil an underlying stream of metaphysical, supernatural, and spiritual ideas over the course of the century. Case studies include Charles Tournemire, Joseph Péladan, Erik Satie, Hilma af Klint, Jean Sibelius, František Kupka, and Wassily Kandinsky. The contributors’ unique theoretical perspectives and disciplinary methodologies offer expert insight on both the rewards and inevitable aesthetic complications that arise when one artform meets another. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, musicology, visual culture, and mysticism.

Author : Maria Quirk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501343063

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Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England by Maria Quirk Pdf

Women, Art and Money in England establishes the importance of women artists' commercial dealings to their professional identities and reputations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Grounded in economic, social and art history, the book draws on and synthesises data from a broad range of documentary and archival sources to present a comprehensive history of women artists' professional status and business relationships within the complex and changing art market of late-Victorian England. By providing new insights into the routines and incomes of women artists, and the spaces where they created, exhibited and sold their art, this book challenges established ideas about what women had to do to be considered 'professional' artists. More important than a Royal Academy education or membership to exhibiting societies was a woman's ability to sell her work. This meant that women had strong incentive to paint in saleable, popular and 'middlebrow' genres, which reinforced prejudices towards women's 'naturally' inferior artistic ability – prejudices that continued far into the twentieth century. From shining a light on the difficult to trace pecuniary arrangements of little researched artists like Ethel Mortlock to offering new and direct comparisons between the incomes earned by male and female artists, and the genres, commissions and exhibitions that earned women the most money, Women, Art and Money is a timely contribution to the history of women's working lives that is relevant to a number of scholarly disciplines.

Author : Julie F. Codell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429628078

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Victorian Artists' Autograph Replicas by Julie F. Codell Pdf

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting’s subsequent versions created by the same artist who painted the first version. Autograph replicas were considered originals, not copies, and were highly valued by collectors in Britain, America, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. Motivated by complex combinations of aesthetic and commercial interests, replicas generated a global, and especially transatlantic, market between the 1870s and the 1940s, and almost all collected replicas were eventually donated to US public museums, giving replicas authority in matters of public taste and museums’ modern cultural roles. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, and economic history.

Author : C. Boyce,P. Finnerty,A. Millim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137007940

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Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle by C. Boyce,P. Finnerty,A. Millim Pdf

Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson's reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and notable friends and on the ever-expanding, media-led circle of Tennyson's admirers.

Author : Julian Cox,Colin Ford
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780892366811

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Julia Margaret Cameron by Julian Cox,Colin Ford Pdf

According to one of Julia Margaret Cameron’s great-nieces, “we never knew what Aunt Julia was going to do next, nor did anyone else.” This is an accurate summation of the life of the British photographer (1815–1879), who took up the camera at age forty-eight and made more than twelve hundred images during a fourteen-year career. Living at the height of the Victorian era, Cameron was anything but conventional, experimenting with the relatively new medium of photography, promoting her own art though exhibition and sale, and pursuing the eminent personalities of her age—Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Thomas Carlyle, and others—as subjects for her lens. For the first time, all known images by Cameron, one of the most important nineteenth-century artists in any medium, are gathered together in a catalogue raisonné. In addition to a complete catalogue of Cameron’s photographs, there is information on her life and times, initial experiments, artistic aspirations, techniques, small-format images, albums, commercial strategies, sitters, and sources of inspiration. Also provided are a selected bibliography of publications on Cameron, a list of exhibitions of her work held both in her time as well as our own, and a summary of important collections where her pictures can be found.

Author : Debra Mancoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317656715

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The Arthurian Revival by Debra Mancoff Pdf

Discrete inquiries into 15 forms of the Arthurian legends produced over the last century explore how they have altered the tradition. They consider works from the US and Europe, and those aimed at popular and elite audiences. The overall conclusion is that the "Arthurian revival" is an ongoing event, and has become multivalent, multinational, and multimedia. Originally published in 1992.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019201677

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M-Z by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Edward Carnehl
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781666763072

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The Artist as Divine Symbol by Adam Edward Carnehl Pdf

In critical yet appreciative dialogue with four different art critics who demonstrated theological sensitivities, Adam Edward Carnehl traces an ongoing religious conversation that ran through nineteenth-century aesthetics. In Carnehl's estimation, this critical conversation between the John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde, culminated in the brilliant approach of G. K. Chesterton, who began his journalistic career with a series of insightful works of art criticism. By conducting a close reading of these largely neglected works, Carnehl demonstrates that Chesterton developed a theological aesthetic that focuses us on the revelation of God's image in every human being. In Chesterton's eyes, only those made in God's image can produce images themselves, and only those who receive a revelation of truth are able to reveal truths for others. Art is therefore a rich and symbolic unveiling of the truth of humanity which finds its origin and purpose in God the Divine Artist.