Narrating Modernity
The British Problem Picture, 1895-1914
Published on 28. October 2003
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-7546-3568-0 (ISBN)
Description
Problem pictures were very popular during the Edwardian period. These pictures invited multiple interpretations of modern life and were often slightly risque. Pamela Fletcher explores how these works of art engaged with questions of gender, sexuality and identity during their heyday.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
31 b&w halftones
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 252 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
689 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-3568-0 (9780754635680)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction - narrating modernity; Towards a definition of the problem picture; Woman as problem; Modern art and modern life; The fashionable problem picture - viewers and viewings; The "problem picture" as modernism's Other; The problem picture and the creation of an audience for modern art.