Narrating Modernity
The British Problem Picture, 1895-1914
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-138-71401-4 (ISBN)
Description
This title was first published in 2003. 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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-71401-4 (9781138714014)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Pamela M. Fletcher
Content
List of figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Narrating modernity, 1. Towards a definition of the problem picture, 2. Woman as problem, 3. Modern art and modem life, 4. The fashionable problem picture: viewers and viewings, 5. The 'problem picture' as modernism's Other, 6. The problem picture and the creation of an audience for modern art, Notes, Bibliography, Index