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The Artist as Anthropologist: The Representation of Type and Character in Victorian Art - Couverture rigide

Cowling, Mary

 
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Synopsis

In the Victorian era, both artists and the public had fixed ideas about physiognomy, which shows how certain features indicate specific mental and moral characteristics. Hence art promoted ideas about individuals, social and racial groups. In particular, the art of W.P.Frith is considered.

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