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Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism
Jason Edwards
Alfred Gilbert
其他書名
Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones
出版
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
, 2006
主題
Art / European
Art / Criticism & Theory
Art / Sculpture & Installation
ISBN
0754608611
9780754608615
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2oUBmVk032wC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism presents the first sustained re-evaluation of the life and work of one of the most acclaimed sculptors of the late- Victorian period. Drawing on important new archival sources, this ground- breaking study challenges the customary assumption that Aestheticism was primarily a literary, painterly or architectural phenomena. Jason Edwards reveals both the diverse ways in which Gilbert's sculptures operated within the context of Aestheticism and also how these works provided a unique and provocative commentary on the history of masculine friendship and eroticism in the period leading up to and beyond the Wilde trials in 1895. Detailed readings are offered of the relationship of Gilbert's work to essays by Pater and Swinburne, poems, plays, and novels by Wilde and W. S. Gilbert, and paintings by Burne-Jones, Leighton, Rossetti, Solomon, Whistler, and Watts. With over 80 illustrations, ...