Body, Self, and Place in Nineteenth-Century Painting
- List Price: $80.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2006
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Around the middle of the nineteenth century, painters, novelists, playwrights, and theorists of architecture seized upon the interior as a metaphor for selfhood, vision and spatiality. This book shows how and why the painted domestic interior, with figures positioned in provocative, even disturbing, manners figured so prominently in contemporary visual culture. The book begins in the 1840s and examines the new ways of imagining and describing interior spaces. It ends in the years around World War I, when the devastation of the war left countless with their sense of selfhood either nakedly exposed or totally destroyed.
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