Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-JonesAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 275 Seiten Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism presents the first sustained re-evaluation of the life and work of one of the most acclaimed sculptors of the late- Victorian period. Drawing on important new archival sources, this ground- breaking study challenges the customary assumption that Aestheticism was primarily a literary, painterly or architectural phenomena. Jason Edwards reveals both the diverse ways in which Gilbert's sculptures operated within the context of Aestheticism and also how these works provided a unique and provocative commentary on the history of masculine friendship and eroticism in the period leading up to and beyond the Wilde trials in 1895. Detailed readings are offered of the relationship of Gilbert's work to essays by Pater and Swinburne, poems, plays, and novels by Wilde and W. S. Gilbert, and paintings by Burne-Jones, Leighton, Rossetti, Solomon, Whistler, and Watts. With over 80 illustrations, ... |
Inhalt
A portrait of the artist as a young | 2 |
1 | 18 |
Perseus Arming | 19 |
canvas 1859 Mallett and Son Antiques | 26 |
cm oil on canvas 187778 Walker | 34 |
10 | 41 |
feet 548 6 cm bronze | 49 |
Academic Aestheticism at Leighton and Burlington House | 57 |
Eros and Piccadilly | 93 |
Comedy and Tragedy Sic Vita c 1892 | 133 |
the Clarence Memorial Tomb | 159 |
G F Watts and the end of Gilberts Aestheticism | 201 |
Notes | 219 |
Select Bibliography | 241 |
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addition adolescent Aesthetic Movement Aestheticism Albert Memorial Alfred Gilbert appears Archive argued artist audience Boehm boy's bronze Burlington House Burne-Jones Burne-Jones's chapter circle Clarence Tomb Cleveland Street Cleveland Street scandal close Comedy and Tragedy contemporary context critics dandy depicted detail Dorment earlier Eddy's effeminate effigy Elizabeth Ellmann emphasized Eros Eros's erotic eroticism essay evidence example famous figure Frederic Leighton G. F. Watts Gallery George Getsy Gilbert's boy Grosvenor Hamo Thornycroft Hatton homoerotic homoerotic Aestheticism homoeroticism homosexual homosexual panic Ibid Icarus inches increasingly Irving Irving's Leighton House London male mask McAllister 1929 meanwhile monument nude oil on canvas painting particular Pater Paterian perhaps period Perseus Arming photograph Piccadilly Circus portrait Pre-Raphaelite Prettejohn prince queer reading relation relationship Renaissance revealed Rossetti Royal Academy scandal sculpture sexual Shaftsbury Memorial significant Solomon sought spectators Stoker studio subsequently Swinburne Symonds Tate Britain theatrical Victorian viewers whilst Whistler Wilde trials Wilde's