The World in Paint: Modern Art and Visuality in England, 1848-1914

by David Peters Corbett

Book Overview

Familiar narratives about the nature of English modernism, tradition, and periodization, together with the literary character of English art from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, are abandoned in this innovative and important book. In their stead, David Peters Corbett proposes a new way of looking at this painting from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Vorticists.

Arguing that art history has been too reluctant to confront the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271023619
• ISBN13: 9780271023618
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 9.7"