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Representations of G.F. Watts : art making in Victorian culture / edited by Colin Trodd and Stephanie Brown.
LIBRA ND497.W3 R47 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904--Criticism and interpretation.
- Watts, George Frederick.
- Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904.
- Art, Victorian.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 197 pages, 44 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Generations of Watts / Colin Trodd, Stephanie Brown 1
- Part I Transfiguring the Wattsian body
- 1 The pointless meaningfulness of Watts's work / Paul Barlow 29
- 2 Between Homer and Ovid: metamorphoses of the 'grand style' in G. F. Watts / Elizabeth Prettejohn 49
- 3 'To intensify the sense of teeming life': Watts and the twilight of transcendence / Colin Trodd 65
- 4 Indefinite expansion: Watts and the physicality of sculpture / Stephanie Brown 83
- Part II Determining the Wattsian space
- 5 Watts, historical thought and the schemes of painting in the 1840s / Janet McLean 109
- 6 Nationalizing Watts: the Hall of Fame and the National Portrait Gallery / Lara Perry 121
- 7 Illuminating experience: Watts and the subject of portraiture / Colin Trodd 135
- 8 Watts and the National Gallery of British Art / Alison Smith 153
- 9 Watts, women, philanthropy and the home arts / Shelagh Wilson 169.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-191) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754605981
- OCLC:
- 51818689
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