Research Catalog

Title

Problem pictures : women and men in Victorian painting / Pamela Gerrish Nunn.

Author

Nunn, Pamela Gerrish

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Pub., c1995.

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Description

xii, 172 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

These essays examine Victorian painting in the light of this 'woman question' by analysing the change in representation of the family, romance, social issues such as emigration and colonialism, the use of the female nude and the traditions of portraiture, history-painting and still life. The art and artists are considered in a socio-political context, and the connections between Victorian sexism, racism and the class system are examined. These essays bring to light much previously unknown work (especially by women) and reappraise many well-known paintings.

Series Statement

The nineteenth century

Uniform Title

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England).

Subject

• Women in art
• Gender identity in art
• Man-woman relationships in art
• Painting, British
• Painting, Victorian > Great Britain
• Art and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-166) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Gentlemen, geniuses and interlopers -- 2. 'Delightful but limited' -- 3. Trouble in Paradise -- 4. Broken blossoms -- 5. The domestication of history -- 6. 'Look homeward, angel!' -- 7. In Venus' train.

ISBN

1859281524

LCCN

^^^95036510^

OCLC

32891276

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library