1st Edition
Problem Pictures Women and Men in Victorian Painting
By Pamela Gerrish Nunn
Copyright 1995
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society, as described by a member of the Athenaeum in 1858, ’the distinction of man and woman, their separate as well as their joint rights, begins to occupy the attention of our whole community, and with no small effect’. These essays examine Victorian painting in the light of this 'woman... Read more
Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Gentlemen, geniuses and interlopers; ’Delightful but limited’; Trouble in paradise; Broken blossoms; The Domestication of history; ’Look homeward, angel!’; In Venus’ train; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Pamela Gerrish Nunn
’Pamela Gerrish Nunn is to be praised for her examination of various types of problem pictures for Victorian women artists and general viewers’ Women Artist News Book Review ’Problem Pictures is wide-ranging in its scope, opening up a number of new areas while pursuing a consistent theme. Many ’lost’ paintings are brought into the scholarly arena...a pioneering study’ Apollo
