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Victorian Painting (Paperback)

by Lionel Lambourne (Author)
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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd (1 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0714843598
  • ISBN-13: 978-0714843599
  • Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 25 x 5.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 184,149 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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After 500 pages of sparkling, appreciative text and gorgeously reproduced paintings of fairies, angels, knights in shining armour, Queen Victoria, rustic bumpkins, mermaids, society ladies, gambolling colts, roses, storm-tossed seas and small children accompanied by mutts, not to mention Ophelia floating beautifully in her watery, flower-strewn grave, readers may feel as if they inhabit the 19th century. It's a shock to wake up to the end of the 20th instead and to the end of a deeply satisfying book. Lionel Lambourne, who was head of paintings at London's Victoria and Albert Museum for nearly a decade, writes with knowledge, wit and grace. "Scratch a cynic and you will always find a sentimentalist" he says with regard to Victorian genre painting. In discussing the nude and a return to classicism, he writes, "Such works ... provided an additional thrill for their nouveau-riche owners, for by displaying them they could show evidence of classical leanings, if not a classical education." After an excellent introductory overview, Lambourne divides his course into 21 chapters, including: "The Victorian Art Establishment", "The Fresco Revival", "The Panorama", "Childhood and Sentiment", "Fairy Painting", "Sporting and Animal Painting", "The Pre-Raphaelites", "The Frailer Sex and Fallen Woman", "Aesthetes and Symbolists" and "Impressionism in Britain." The editing and design of the book are superb, with reproductions exactly matching the text and captions containing all relevant information. Lambourne offers new dimensions even to history we think we know well, such as Whistler's lawsuit against the critic John Ruskin, who famously accused the artist of "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." In Lambourne's view, the controversy "marked the beginning of aspects of art as various as conceptualism and abstraction" and he goes on to explain why. A tour-de-force of scholarship served up with style, Victorian Painting does ample justice to a complex, frequently misunderstood era. --Peggy Moorman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'Authoritative and carefully researched ... an extraordinarily vivid account of a fascinating time of change and reform.'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lavishly and wonderfully written and illustrated., 10 Jan 2000
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As a follower and fan of Victorian art, this book was a treat to the eyes and mind. It more than covered the bases, and the reproductions were top-notch. For some odd reason, the cover didn't catch my attention (even though Waterhouse is amazing), but as I opened the book, it was really quite breathtaking, and well worth the purchase!
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