Marshall, Nancy Rose, City of gold and mud , 2012
- Title:
- City of gold and mud : painting Victorian London / Nancy Rose Marshall.
- Alternate Title(s):
- Painting Victorian London
- Published/Created:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 312 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryND1452.G75 M37 2012 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-295) and index.
- Contents:
- Introduction. City of gold and mud : painting Victorian London -- Looking at London : the public sphere and the individual -- "The whirl and rush of harmony" : representing the London crowd -- Imperial illumination : William Holman Hunt's London Bridge and royal spectacle in the modern city -- "More than an empty show"? : William Logsdail's Ninth of November and civic pageantry -- "As black and sweep-like as I could desire" : dirt, blackness, and the representation of street types -- "A defiant parade of rags" : images of working-class children -- Horror embodied : Luke Fildes's Casual ward -- "Latent Edens" : the urban pastoral -- "A dim world, where monsters dwell" : the spatial time of the Sydenham Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park.
- Subject Terms:
- Art and society -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.Genre painting, Victorian -- Great Britain.London (England) -- In art.Manners and customs in art.Social classes in art.
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