Narrating modernity : the British problem picture, 1895-1914 /
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| Author / Creator: | Fletcher, Pamela M., 1967- |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003. |
| Description: | ix, 188 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | British art and visual culture since 1750, new readings |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5046562 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction: narrating modernity
- Towards a definition of the problem picture
- The emergence of the problem picture
- The problem picture: a chronological narrative
- The problem picture as social practice: audiences
- The problem picture as social practice: the press
- The 'problem picture'
- Woman as problem
- Sex and the 'marriage problem'
- Woman as problem; Decoding woman
- Modern art and modern life
- Trouble and the painting of modern life: Collier in the 1890s
- A Confession and The Prodigal Daughter: producing the problem picture
- The fashionable problem picture: viewers and viewings
- The fallen woman and the New Woman: The Prodigal Daughter
- 'An unpleasant squabble at cards': The Cheat
- Mothers and daughters: Mariage de Convenance
- Modern masculinity: The Sentence of Death
- The 'problem picture' as modernism's Other
- The 'problem picture' and the press, 1909-13
- The 'problem picture' as modernism's Other
- The problem picture and the creation of an audience for modern art
- From high art to entertainment: A Fallen Idol; Embodying viewers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
