Victorian art criticism and the woman writer
Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer by John Paul M. Kanwit examines the development of specialized art commentary in a period when art education became a national concern in Britain. The explosion of Victorian visual culture-evident in the rapid expansion of galleries and museums, the techn...
| Main Author: | Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
©2013.
Columbus : [2013] |
| Physical Description: |
xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Encouraging visual literacy : early-Victorian state sponsorship of the arts and the growing need for expert art commentary
- "Mere outward appearances"? Teaching household taste and social perception in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and south and contemporary art commentary
- "My name is the right one" : Lady Elizabeth (Rigby) Eastlake and the story of professional art criticism
- "I have often wished in vain for another's judgment" : modeling ideal aesthetic commentary in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall
- A new kind of elitism? Art criticism and mid-Victorian exhibitions
- Interpreting Cleopatra : aesthetic guidance in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch
- Sensational sentiments : impressionism and the protection of difficulty in late-Victorian art criticism
- Conclusion : "An astonishingly tasteless idea"? Artistic value after September 11.