Victorian painting / Lionel Lambourne
1999, 1st Edition. London: Phaidon Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #359560
ISBN: 0714837768
Physical description: 512 pages: color illustrations; 30 cm. Contents: Introduction -- The Victorian art establishment -- The fresco revival: mural painting -- The good and the great: portrait painting -- Oils versus watercolours: landscape painting -- The narrative impulse: genre painting -- 'Virtual reality: the panorama -- Childhood and sentiment -- Fairy painting -- Sporting and animal painting -- The pre-Raphaelites -- 'All human life is here': cross-sections of society -- The nude and classicism -- Women artists -- Sombre schools of art: social realism -- Parting: emigration and war -- The frailer sex and the fallen woman -- A transatlantic exchange --Colonial ties: painters in a wider world -- Aesthetes and symbolists: the last romantics -- Impressionism in Britain -- The end of an era. Subjects: Painting, Victorian. Painting, British 19th century. Mural painting and decoration.
Price: €45.00