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City of gold and mud : painting Victorian London / Nancy Rose Marshall.
Fine Arts Library ND1452.G75 M37 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marshall, Nancy Rose.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genre painting, Victorian--Great Britain.
- Genre painting, Victorian.
- Art and society.
- History.
- London (England)--In art.
- London (England).
- Social classes in art.
- Manners and customs in art.
- Art and society--England--London--History--19th century.
- England--London.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Painting Victorian London
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction. City of gold and mud : painting Victorian London
- Looking at London : the public sphere and the individual
- "The whirl and rush of harmony" : representing the London crowd
- Imperial illumination : William Holman Hunt's London Bridge and royal spectacle in the modern city
- "More than an empty show"? : William Logsdail's Ninth of November and civic pageantry
- "As black and sweep-like as I could desire" : dirt, blackness, and the representation of street types
- "A defiant parade of rags" : images of working-class children
- Horror embodied : Luke Fildes's Casual ward
- "Latent Edens" : the urban pastoral
- "A dim world, where monsters dwell" : the spatial time of the Sydenham Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300174465
- 0300174462
- OCLC:
- 748812839
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