Love & Death: Art In The Age Of Queen Victoria
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A richly illustrated art history volume, Love & Death: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria presents a sweeping examination of the two great preoccupations that defined Victorian visual culture — romantic love and the omnipresence of mortality. Angus Trumble argues with wit and scholarly precision that these twin obsessions shaped not only the subject matter of Victorian painting and sculpture but also the very emotional grammar through which an entire society understood itself. Drawing on a wealth of works from the period, the text illuminates how artists navigated the tension between sentimentality and grief, propriety and passion, producing imagery of extraordinary psychological complexity. Written with an engaging, accessible tone that balances academic rigor with genuine enthusiasm, it invites both the casual reader and the seasoned art historian to reconsider the Victorian era as a period of profound artistic ambition rather than mere decorative excess.
Author: Angus Trumble
Format: Hardback
Published: 2002, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A richly illustrated art history volume, Love & Death: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria presents a sweeping examination of the two great preoccupations that defined Victorian visual culture — romantic love and the omnipresence of mortality. Angus Trumble argues with wit and scholarly precision that these twin obsessions shaped not only the subject matter of Victorian painting and sculpture but also the very emotional grammar through which an entire society understood itself. Drawing on a wealth of works from the period, the text illuminates how artists navigated the tension between sentimentality and grief, propriety and passion, producing imagery of extraordinary psychological complexity. Written with an engaging, accessible tone that balances academic rigor with genuine enthusiasm, it invites both the casual reader and the seasoned art historian to reconsider the Victorian era as a period of profound artistic ambition rather than mere decorative excess.