Art in the age of Queen Victoria : treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts permanent collection / edited by Helen Valentine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valentine, Helen.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Denver Art Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain).

Art, Victorian--Great Britain--Exhibitions.

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)--Exhibitions.

Exhibitions.

Art, Victorian.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

167 pages : illustrations(some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Royal Academy of Arts in association with Yale University Press, [1999]

Summary:

The Victorian age was marked by national self-confidence and stability, as Britain enjoyed peace at home and a rise in its industrial output, population, literacy, and general level of prosperity. These were conditions in which art prospered, and during the 60-year reign of Queen Victoria several generations of painters produced work of immense variety and beauty. This lovely book celebrates the artists and subjects of that period, drawing on paintings and sculpture from the permanent collection of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

The book provides an engaging and accessible overview of the most important artists of the period. Eminent scholars offer insights into their artistic subjects, styles, and techniques, as well as into the role of the Royal Academy in the age of Queen Victoria. More than 70 works of art are catalogued in depth, including many that are reproduced here for the first time. The book also includes biographies of the artists featured, each illustrated with a contemporary photograph.

This book will be the catalogue for an exhibition that will be at the Denver Art Museum from 15 May to 15 August 1999, and then travel to the Frye Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington, the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, the National Academy Museum in New York, and the Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Contents:

Essays

A Brief Survey of Victorian Painting / Julian Treuherz 12

The Royal Academy in the Age of Queen Victoria / MaryAnne Stevens 26

The Royal Academy Schools in the Victorian Period / Helen Valentine 40

Victorian Painting Technique: A Craft Reinvented? / Helen Glanville 48

Catalogue / Helen Valentine, MaryAnne Stevens

Presidents of the Royal Academy of Arts during the Reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) 55

Historical Genre 67

Mythological and Classical Subjects 89

Modern Genre 103

Towards the Exotic 123

Landscape Painting 131.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and shown at the Denver Art Museum, May 15-Aug. 15, 1999 and four other American museums through Sept. 24, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-165).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0300079974

OCLC:

40927021