Research Catalog

Title

Model and supermodel : the artist's model in British art and culture / edited by Jane Desmarais, Martin Postle and William Vaughan.

Publication

Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Desmarais, Jane
• Postle, Martin.
• Vaughan, William.
• Vaughan, William, 1943-

Description

xv, 169 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Series Statement

Critical perspectives in art history

Uniform Title

Critical perspectives in art history.

Subject

• Artists' models > Great Britain > History
• Artists' models in literature

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-163) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Naked civil servants : the professional life model in British art and society / Martin Postle -- The pre-Raphaelite model / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- The model on the writers' block : the model in fiction from Balzac to du Maurier / Jane Desmarais -- Modelling Godiva : the female model as performer in Victorian England / Alison Smith -- Still lives : the art of Edward Linley Sambourne / Reena Suleman -- 'A great sight' : Henry Scott Tuke and his models / Michael Hatt -- Overexposed? : the model in British figurative art from Sickert to Freud / William Vaughan -- Paper dolls : the found model in contemporary art / Catherine Wood -- Appendix A: The artist : Peter Blake in conversation with Colin Wiggins, Nottingham, 1999 -- Appendix B: The model : Susannah Gregory in conversation with Jane Desmarais, London, 2001

ISBN

• 071906662X (hbk.)
• 9780719066627 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 69484519
• SCSB-11996712

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library