Objects
of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
(Museum Studies (Art Institute of Chicago) by Judith Barter,
Ghenete Zelleke, Debra N. Mancoff (Contributor), Douglas R.
Nickel (Contributor) – Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: Art
Institute of Chicago (August 18, 2005)
This volume focuses on a wide range of Victorian-era objects
from Britain and the United States in the collection of the
Art Institute of Chicago. The following topics are explored:
still-life painting in nineteenth-century America; the burgeoning
Victorian print market; a fascinating sketchbook used by the
English painter Edward Burne-Jones; a spectacular Gothic-style
British wine cabinet; and a rare photographic album compiled
by an aristocratic English family. Also featured, in a portfolio
section, are other highlights from the museum’s Victorian collection,
including furniture, paintings, photographs, textiles, and works
on paper by such noted artists as Julia Margaret Cameron, William
Morris, and John Everett Millais.
Exposed:
The Victorian Nude
by Alison Smith, Robert Upstone, Tate Britain – Hardcover:
288 pages Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications (May 1, 2002)
The epitome of high culture or an assault on public morality?
The nude figure was one of the most controversial issues in
Victorian art. It was also one of the most conspicuous categories
for the visual image at every level, from elite paintings for
the Royal Academy to mass-produced photographs and magazine
illustrations. Exposed: The Victorian Nude provides a
fascinating overview of the nude figure-both male and female-and
the intriguing role it played in Victorian art. While it concentrates
on painting, sculpture, and drawing, this beautifully illustrated
reference also explores the depiction of the naked body in other
media-including photography, popular illustration, advertising,
and caricature-and discusses the issues of morality, sexuality,
and desire that are relevant even today. Since nudes were an
important subject for most Victorian artists, Exposed: The
Victorian Nude showcases dazzling artwork from such legendary
masters as Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Whistler, and Sargent,
as well as pivotal figures of early English modernism. Cutting
across the conventional categories of style and period, this
guide offers a fresh, engrossing vision of Victorian art and
culture unmatched anywhere else.
Victorian
Painting by Christopher Wood – Hardcover, 384 pages
1 No Amer edition (April 2000) Bulfinch Press
A spectacular book on the most popular era of British painting
from 1837 to1914 by the world's leading authority in the field.
Victorian
Painting by Lionel Lambourne – Hardcover, 512 pages
(September 1999) Phaidon Press Inc.
This text presents an overview of one of the most fertile and
exuberant periods in the history of art. It embraces not only
the UK but also the English-speaking countries linked to England
by the cultural ties of empire and emigration. Long out of fashion,
Victorian painting is now enjoyed in its own right.
The Victorians: British Painting, 1837-1901 by Malcolm
Warner, Anne Helmreich (Contributor), Charles Brock (Contributor)
– Hardcover, 270 pages, Natl Gallery of Art, 1997 225 illustrations,
75 in color.
From the medieval tendencies of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to the
classicism of Frederick Leighton, Victorian painting is seen
to have encompassed a broad range of subjects and styles. This
elegant volume showcases the work of a great many Victorian
painters, including J.M.W. Turner, John Everett Millais, and
James Tissot. Publication to coincide with an exhibition opening
at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in February.
The author discusses the construction of maleness in British
painting in chapters titled 'Classical Hero,' 'Gallant Knight,'
'Challenged Paterfamilias,' 'Valiant Soldier,' and 'Male Nude.'
By the middle of the 19th century, English artists
and designers had achieved wealth and status,
becoming influential members of society. From
about 1850 on, the most prestigious artists—led
by George Frederic Leighton—settled in
the Holland Park section of London. Their homes
were exquisite creations, beautifully furnished,
that were open to the public once a year on
"show Sunday." (To this day, these
miniature palaces remain some of the most expensive
homes in London.) Dakers (cultural history,
Central St. Martins Coll. of Art and Design)
examines the relationships among the artists,
their beautiful studio-homes, and their circle
of fellow artists and patrons—no longer
the aristocracy but rather merchants, bankers,
and industrialists who wanted not Old Masters
but works by living artists. This is truly a
groundbreaking work, carefully written and beautifully
produced, about an important group of artists.
Recommended for public and academic libraries.
—Martin Chasin, Adult Inst., Bridgeport,
CT Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information,
Inc.
This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the art and artists
of Britain`s Victorian age, a long and peaceful period that
produced works of immense variety and beauty. Drawing on more
than 70 paintings and sculptures from the Royal Academy of Arts
in London, the book discusses important artists of the time,
their subjects, styles, and techniques, and the role of the
Royal Academy during Queen Victoria`s reign.
Though today the Victorian era is considered extremely prudish,
the artists of that period created a tradition of the nude in
British art, drawing upon Greek and Roman classicism to affirm
Britain's superiority at a time of skyrocketing pornography
and prostitution. This fascinating insight into the art, mores
and psyche of a bygone age includes a wide variety of images
from painting, photography and film, including works by such
noted artists as William Etty, Lord Leighton and George Frederic
Watts.
Midwest Book Review William Hesketh Lever, the first
Lord Leverhulme, was one of the most extravagant collectors
of Victorian and Edwardian art. He was also one of the most
perceptive. This is the first detailed and scholarly catalog
of the superb collection that is now housed in the Lady Lever
Art Gallery. The catalog features two major groups of paintings:
first, the late Pre-Raphaelite and classical revival works of
Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, J. W. Waterhouse and
others; and second, a group of late Victorian and early 20th
century works which Lever bought direct from their artists.
An outstanding presentation of Victorian masterpieces!
These essays examine Victorian painting in the light of this
'woman question' by analysing the change in representation of
the family, romance, social issues such as emigration and colonialism,
the use of the female nude and the traditions of portraiture,
history-painting and still life. The art and artists are considered
in a socio-political context, and the connections between Victorian
sexism, racism and the class system are examined. These essays
bring to light much previously unknown work (especially by women)
and reappraise many well-known paintings.
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Objects
of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Exposed:
The Victorian Nude
Victorian
Painting
Victorian
Painting
The Victorians: British Painting, 1837-1901 
Victorian and Edwardian Paintings in the Walker Gallery and
at Sudley House 
Masculinities in Victorian Painting 
The
Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society
Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy
of Arts Permanent Collection
Empire
of the Nude - The Victorian Nude
Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC 
Victorian & Edwardian Paintings in the Lady Lever Art Gallery: British
Artists Born After 1810 Excluding the Early Pre-Raphaelites
(Victoria & Edward Museum)
Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting (Nineteenth
Century) 
