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.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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:
Genre painting, Victorian -- Great Britain. | London (England) -- In art. | Social classes in art. | Manners and customs in art. | Art and society -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.