At the Temple of Art
At the Temple of Art

Author: Colleen Denney

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780838638507

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"In the hands of an innovative team consisting of Sir Coutts Lindsay, his wife Blanche Lindsay, and two managers, Charles Halle and Joseph Comyns Carr, the gallery developed a reputation as a leading exhibition space for British and Continental artists during the late Victorian period. What factors contributed to its rise to prominence on the London exhibition circuit? How did it maintain that respected place in light of the diversification of showcases during this period?" "Central to this book is a close examination of the paintings which were shown at the gallery during its fourteen-year run, how they were received by the critics, and which movements were represented."--Jacket.

Dictionary of Artists' Models
Dictionary of Artists' Models

Author: Jill Berk Jiminez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-15

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 1135959218

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The first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a brief biography, selected works in which the model appears (with location), a list of further reading. This will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.

Ella Hepworth Dixon
Ella Hepworth Dixon

Author: Valerie Fehlbaum

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1351940791

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In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. After an initial popularity, however, Dixon's work remained largely unread for decades. Valerie Fehlbaum sheds light on Dixon's life and work, and provides profound insight not only into Dixon herself but into the multifaceted character of the "New Woman" writer that Dixon typified.

Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction
Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction

Author: A. Kingston

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-12-25

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 023060935X

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This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker.

Actresses on the Victorian Stage
Actresses on the Victorian Stage

Author: Gail Marshall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-05-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521620161

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Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Drawing on evidence of theatrical fictions, visual representations and popular culture's assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as theatrical productions, she examines some of the manifestations of the sculptural metaphor on the legitimate English stage, and its implications for the actress in the later nineteenth century. Within the legitimate theatre, the 'Galatea-aesthetic' positioned actresses as predominantly visual and sexual commodities whose opportunities for interpretative engagement with their plays were minimal. This dominant aesthetic was effectively challenged only at the end of the century, with the advent of the 'New' drama, and the emergence of a body of autobiographical writings by actresses.