City of gold and mud : painting Victorian London /

City of gold and mud : painting Victorian London /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marshall, Nancy Rose
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Genre painting, Victorian > Great Britain.
Social classes in art.
Manners and customs in art.
Art and society > England > London > History > 19th century.
London (England) > In art.
Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. City of gold and mud : painting Victorian London
  • Looking at London : the public sphere and the individual
  • "The whirl and rush of harmony" : representing the London crowd
  • Imperial illumination : William Holman Hunt's London Bridge and royal spectacle in the modern city
  • "More than an empty show"? : William Logsdail's Ninth of November and civic pageantry
  • "As black and sweep-like as I could desire" : dirt, blackness, and the representation of street types
  • "A defiant parade of rags" : images of working-class children
  • Horror embodied : Luke Fildes's Casual ward
  • "Latent Edens" : the urban pastoral
  • "A dim world, where monsters dwell" : the spatial time of the Sydenham Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park.