1st Edition
Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Nineteenth-Century Pioneer of Modern Art Criticism
By Kimberly Morse Jones
Copyright 2015
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
Mining various archives and newspaper repositories, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Nineteenth-Century Pioneer of Modern Art Criticism provides the first full-length study of a remarkable woman and heretofore neglected art critic. Pennell, a prolific 'New Art Critic', helped formulate and develop formalist methodology in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, which she applied to her mostly... Read more
Contents: Introduction; An aesthetic life; Pennell as a New Art critic (1890-1895); Fashioning Whistler’s legacy; The decline of the New Art criticism (1896-1912); Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Kimberly Morse Jones is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College, USA.
