Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century - Couverture rigide

Nochlin, Linda

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 050023969X ISBN 13 : 9780500239698

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

The coming of the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century witnessed unprecedented changes in society: rapid economic progress went hand-in-hand with appalling working conditions, displacement, squalor and destitution for those at the bottom of the social scale. These new circumstances presented a challenge to contemporary image-makers, who wished to capture the effects of hunger, poverty and alienation in Britain, Ireland and France in the era before documentary photography. In this groundbreaking book, the eminent art historian Linda Nochlin examines the styles and expressive strategies that were used by artists and illustrators to capture this misère, roughly characterized as poverty that afflicts both body and soul. She investigates images of the Irish Famine in the period 1846–51; the gendered representation of misery, particularly of poor women and prostitutes; and the work of three very different artists: Théodore Géricault, Gustave Courbet and the less wellknown Fernand Pelez. The artists’ desire to depict the poor and the outcast accurately and convincingly is still a pertinent issue, though now, as Nochlin observes, the question has a moral and ethical dimension – does the documentary style belittle its subjects and degrade their condition?

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À propos de l?auteur

Linda Nochlin was the Lila Acheson Wallace professor of modern art emerita at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Her publications include The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity; Women, Art and Power and Other Essays; The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society; Courbet; Mise`re: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century; and Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader. Her essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" is considered one of the most in influential texts in modern art history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 050023969X
• ISBN 13: 9780500239698
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken BV; sales@vanditmar.nl