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The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
(2019-09-20)In contrast to the richly visual literature of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, the period’s visual art is usually seen as impoverished. Historians have emphasised the views of Protestant divines, for ... -
British Orientalist Painting in the Victorian Art World
(2019-09-10)My thesis examines the production, display, and sale of Orientalist paintings in relation to the four agents of the Victorian art world: the artist, dealer, press, and patron. With a particular focus on the 1880s, a decade ... -
The Politics of the Grotesque: Goya's 'Caprichos' and French Literature and Graphic Art in the Nineteenth Century (c.1799-1868).
(2019-10-26)This PhD dissertation studies the influence of Goya’s prints in nineteenth-century France, focusing on Los Caprichos (1799). It first examines the spread of Goya’s work in the French market, which became the main receptor ... -
Kettle's Yard: anti-museum. H.S. Ede, modernism and the experience of art.
(2019-10-01)KETTLE’S YARD: ANTI-MUSEUM H.S. Ede, modernism and the experience of art Elizabeth Anne Fisher ABSTRACT This thesis attempts to tackle the question of what is, or more precisely, what was Kettle’s Yard, by exploring the ...
