History''s Beauties - Women in the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900

Zusatztext 'Lara Perry's interdisciplinary approach weaves together in a complex pattern many ideas! topics! and strands of thought. ... This is a stimulating book! offering much to provoke further studies.' Reviews in History '... provides readers with a renewed glimpse into the relationship between gender and culture in the Victorian era.' Victorian Studies '... [a] fascinating and thoughtful book...' Museum and Society '... a refreshing addition to the literature of museum studies.' The Art Book Informationen zum Autor Lara Perry! Lecturer in Visual Culture! School of Historical and Critical Studies! University of Brighton! UK Zusammenfassung Presenting a study of the National Portrait Gallery's early collection, this monograph study of gender maps a culture of femininity that reframes the Victorian fascination with women's domestic and sentimental presence by locating it within a Parliament-centred 'national' culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction: The nation's beauties: women in the nineteenth-century museum; Women! the National! and the Portrait Gallery; Victoria and her predecessors; Sentimental histories; Beauty; The arts of women; Conclusion: The varieties of the public woman; Appendix 1: The trustees of the National Portrait Gallery; Appendix 2: List of women's portraits acquired by the National Portrait Gallery between 1856 and 1900; Notes; Bibliography! Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lara Perry, Perry Lara
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2006
• EAN: 9780754630814
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-3081-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: British Art and Visual Culture since 1750 New Readings; British Art and Visual Culture since 1750 New Readings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, ART / History / General, ART / Museum Studies, ART / Women Artists, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies