| Description |
xxxii, 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in British art ; 5 |
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Studies in British art ; 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The artist as artificer / Caroline Arscott -- Nature transformed : Leighton, the nude and the model / Alison Smith -- Drapery, sculpture and the Praxitelean ideal / Rosemary Barrow -- On translating Homer : prehistory and the limits of classicism / Robyn Asleson -- Aestheticising history painting / Elizabeth Pettejohn -- The apotheosis of the male nude : Leighton and Michelangelo / Lene Østermark-Johansen -- Leighton in Albertopolis : monumental art and objects of desire / Tim Barringer -- Drawing domestic decline : Leighton's version of Romola / Mark Turner -- Transparent bodies, opaque identities : personification, narrative and portraiture / Paul Barlow -- Leighton and the shifting repertoires of 'masculine' artistic identity in the late Victorian period / Andrew Stephenson -- From Burlington House to the Peckham Road : Leighton and art and design education / Rafael Cardoso Denis -- Decoration, display, disguise : Leighton House reconsidered / Lousie Campbell -- Leighton and music / Michael Musgrave -- Leighton : a promoter of the new painting / Anna Gruetzner Robins. |
| Subject |
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896.
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Painting, British.
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Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- Great Britain.
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| Added Author |
Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896.
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Barringer, T. J.
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Prettejohn, Elizabeth.
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| ISBN |
0300079370 cloth |
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