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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Nineteenth-Century Art"”.
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… a folio of drawings from the Anglo-Australian artist Sophia Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… a folio of drawings from the Anglo-Australian artist Sophia Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could …
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Between impressionism and realism: Robert Henri's early career, navigation of nineteenth-century French modernism, and the development of an American avant-garde
… and the outspoken representative of the Ashcan artists. Inspired by his philosophy of artistic practice, Henri's followers embraced their individuality and represented their engagement with the realities of modern life. For his own part, however, Henri never truly adopted the reformist style …
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American Art Histories: Framing Race in Exhibitions, 1842-1876
In the mid to late nineteenth century, exhibitions in the United States presented histories of art by laying out sequences of objects. Paintings, sculptures, and prints were aligned or juxtaposed with so-called artifacts and specimens as well as plaster casts of classical sculpture in order to …
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Hellenikotita — Greekness: Constructing Greek Genre Painting, Visualizing National Identity, 1850–1900
… was as diverse as its multiple dialects. By mid–century, genre painting began to take shape. Eventually it was known in Greek as “<em>ηθογραφία</em> (“<em>ethographia</em>”) or “ethography,” from the word <em>ήθος</em> (ethos) or morals, referring to the guiding beliefs or ideals that …
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En Plein Air: Studying Human Behaviour and Attitudes in a Stratified World
… To introduce key concepts, chapter 1 charts my own intellectual development from aspiring behavioural economist to inequality scholar. In line with this genealogical approach, chapter 2 likens the evolution of behavioural economics and the expansive field of behavioural science to …
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Eve and the Madonna in Victorian Art
… subject pictures, a category of Victorian art that remains arguably under-researched. Nineteenth-century religious art was rooted in a Romantic sensibility and was invested with the purpose of providing a balm during a course, commercial industrial age, which, like the Enlightenment that …
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Prose for art's sake: creating and documenting an American aesthetic, 1810 - 1860
Abstract Prose for Art’s Sake: Creating and Documenting an American Aesthetic, 1810 – 1860, assembles an archive of early American writings on the visual arts to query how American authors defined literary practice with respect to developing dialogues on visual aesthetics. I argue that when …
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The art of dealing: commercial galleries in Paris towards the end of the nineteenth century.
Art plays a central role in our society as a representation of who we are and as a challenge to our values. This thesis looks at the moment in which art became an object of speculation and the art world had to face the challenges of commercialisation. Throughout the nineteenth century the French …