Narrating Modernity: The British Problem Picture, 1895-1914 - The British Problem Picture, 1895-1914

List of contents

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

About the author

Fletcher, Pamela M.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Fletcher, Pamela M. Fletcher
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138714045
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71404-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Society and culture: general, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909