Victorian fairy painting / Jeremy Maas ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maas, Jeremy.

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

University of Iowa. Museum of Art.

Art Gallery of Ontario.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, British--Exhibitions.

Painting, British.

Fairies in art--Exhibitions.

Fairies in art.

Painting, Victorian--England--Exhibitions.

Painting, Victorian.

Exhibitions.

England.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Merrell Holberton, [1997]

Summary:

Between 1840 and 1870 the fairy world enjoyed an enormous vogue in English painting, literature, and theatre. This is the first serious book on a subject that attracted artists such as Turner, Millais, and Landseer, as well as a number of extraordinary specialists such as Richard Dadd and John Anster Fitzgerald. The book accompanies an exhibition showing in London, Iowa, and Toronto.

"Fairy painting was close to the centre of Victorian subconscious. No other type of painting concentrates so many of the opposing elements in the Victorian psyche: the desire to escape the great hardships of daily existence; the stirrings of new attitudes towards sex, stifled by religious dogma; a passion for the unseen; psychological retreat from scientific discovery; the latent refulsion against the exactitude of the new invention of photography". -- from the Introduction

Notes:

"First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Victorian fairy painting', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 13 November 1997-8 February 1998, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 28 February-24 May 1998 [1nd] The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 10 June-13 September 1998"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157) and index.

ISBN:

1858940435

090094658X

OCLC:

39130802