- Title :
-
Representations of G.F. Watts : art making in Victorian culture
- Authors :
- PRETTEJOHN, Elizabeth ; MCLEAN, Janet ; PERRY, Lara ; SMITH, Alison ; WILSON, Shelagh ; BARLOW, Paul ;
- Publication year :
-
2004
- Language :
- English ;
- Abstract :
- Essays: 'The pointless meaningfulness of Watts's work,' by Paul Barlow; 'Between Homer and Ovid: metamorphoses of the 'grand style' in G.F. Watts,' by Elizabeth Prettejohn; ' 'To intensify the sense of teeming life': Watts and the twilight of transcendence,' by Colin Trodd; 'Indefinite expansion: Watts and the physicality of sculpture,' by Stephanie Brown; 'Watts, historical thought and the schemes of painting in the 1840s,' by Janet McLean; 'Nationalizing Watts: the Hall of Fame and the National Portrait Gallery,' by Lara Perry; 'Illuminating experience: Watts and the subject of portraiture,' by Colin Trodd; 'Watts and the National Gallery of British Art,' by Alison Smith; 'Watts, women, philanthropy and the home arts,' by Shelagh Wilson. ;
- Pagination/Size :
- 197 ; xii, 197 p., <44> p. of pl.; 47 ill. (8 col.) ;
- Topic :
- 530 - BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART ;
- French keywords :
- Art Nouveau ; Corps humain ; Critique d'art ; Ecrits ; Esthétique ; Femmes ; Grande-Bretagne ; Homère, act.av.700 av. J.C. ; Iconographie ; Identité nationale ; London (GBR), National Portrait Gallery ; London (GBR), Tate Britain ; Monument commémoratif ; Métamorphoses ; Ovide (Publius Ovidius Naso), 43 av. J.C.-v.17 ap. J.C. ; Peinture ; Portrait ; Sculpture ; Symbolisme ; Technique ; Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904 ; Watts, Mary S., 1849/50-1938 ; 1800-1900 ;
- Descriptors :
- Aesthetics ; Art criticism ; Art Nouveau ; Commemorative monuments ; Great Britain ; Homer, act. before 700 B.C. ; Human figure ; Iconography ; London (GBR), National Portrait Gallery ; London (GBR), Tate Britain ; Metamorphoses ; National identity ; Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), 43 B.C.-ca.17 A.D. ; Painting ; Portraits ; Sculpture ; Symbolism ; Technique ; Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904 ; Watts, Mary S., 1849/50-1938 ; Women ; Writings ; 1800-1900 ;
- Document type :
- Ouvrage ;
- INIST identifier :
- 24875576 ;
- ISBN :
- ISBN 0754605981 ;
- Provenance :
- Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art ;
- Publisher :
-
Aldershot; Burlington, VT; Ashgate
- Publisher country :
- UNITED KINGDOM ;
UNITED STATES ;
