Love & death : art in the age of Queen Victoria / Angus Trumble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trumble, Angus.

Art Gallery of South Australia.

Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Queensland Art Gallery.

Auckland Art Gallery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, British--19th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, British.

Painting, Victorian--Great Britain--Exhibitions.

Painting, Victorian.

Pre-Raphaelitism--Great Britain--Exhibitions.

Pre-Raphaelitism.

Aesthetic movement (Art)--Exhibitions.

Aesthetic movement (Art).

Death in art--Exhibitions.

Death in art.

Love in art--Exhibitions.

Love in art.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Love and death

Art in the age of Queen Victoria

Place of Publication:

Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, [2001]

Summary:

The English Victorians' lushly illustrative, sen- sual and romantic art borrowed themes from classical literature, ancient mythology and morality tales to explore concerns like infant mortality, divorce, burial and cremation.

Contents:

Director's foreword / Ron Radford

Love & death : art in the age of Queen Victoria / Angus Trumble

Love & death : Dante Alighieri & Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Renée Free

Historical & modern? : Ford Madox Brown's Chaucer / Timothy Barringer

Deathless beauty : Poynter's Helen, Lillie Langtry & high Victorian ideals of beauty / Alison Inglis

Images of the past in Victorian painting / Elizabeth Prettejohn.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Dec. 7, 2001-Feb. 3, 2002; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Mar. 16-May 12, 2002; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, May 30-July 28, 2002; Toi o Tamaki Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, Aug. 24-Nov. 24, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-233).

ISBN:

0730830764

OCLC:

49858394