Visual Culture in Britain back issues from January 2007:
Introduction. 'Anxious Flirtations': Homoeroticism, Art and Aestheticism in Late-Victorian Britain
Jan 01, 2007; ... The five essays comprising this issue of Visual Culture in Britain derive from a conference that took place at the Institute of English Studies in July 2001, entitled 'Anxious Flirtations: Homoeroticism, Art and Aestheticism in LateVictorian Britain'. Following the centenary of Oscar Wilde's ...
'A Singularity of Appearance Counts Doubly in a Democracy of Clothes': Whistler, Fancy Dress and the Camping of Artists' Dress in the Late Nineteenth Century
Jan 01, 2007; ... 'A singularity of appearance counts doubly in a democracy of clothes.' For Frank Harris, this was one of the important lessons Whistler taught the young Oscar Wilde when the former had returned to London after the Ruskin libel trial.1 Whistler's influence upon Wilde is well recorded, as is the ...
Recognizing the Homoerotic: the Uses of Intersubjectivity in John Addington Symonds' 1887 Essays on Art
Jan 01, 2007; ... In recent decades, the reputation of John Addington Symonds has undergone a transformation. His singular commitment to homoeroticist ethics and politics has made him an increasingly timely and compelling forebear for both activists and scholars in the struggle for the equality and legitimacy of ...
Oedipus and the Sphinx: Visual Knowledge and Homosociality in the Ricketts Circle
Jan 01, 2007; ... I am concerned in this essay with some of the implications of the life and works of the art critic, connoisseur, artist and collector Charles Ricketts (1866-1931). In 'aesthetic partnership' with his lifelong companion, the painter Charles Shannon (1863-1937),1 Ricketts was a leading member of ...
Precarious Poses: the Problem of Artistic Visibility and its Homosocial Performances in Late-Nineteenth-Century London
Jan 01, 2007; ... He recognised me as infallibly as I had recognised him: he appeared to know how a young American of an Aesthetic turn would look ... He took me by the hand and smiled at me and said: 'You must be - a - you, I think.1 Identity cannot, then, reside in the name you can say or the body you ...
Space, Surface, Self: Homosexuality and the Aesthetic Interior
Jan 01, 2007; ... One of the most celebrated symptoms of Aestheticism is the Aesthetic interior, the self-conscious creation of a beautiful home in Bohemian Chelsea and Passionate Brompton. In line with the theory and practice of the Aesthetic Movement in the 1870s and 1880s, many a parlour was filled with blue ...
Beauty and Art 1750-2000
Jan 01, 2007; ... Beauty and Art 1750-2000 by Elizabeth Prettejohn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 Beauty and Art is a much-needed demonstration of how a reformulated conceptualization of the relationship between beauty and art can be interwoven with, rather than replace, the key methodologies of ...
Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites
Jan 01, 2007; ... Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, edited by Colin Cruise, London and New York: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery in association with Merrell Publishers Ltd, 2005 In 1869, a critic for The Athenaeum responded doubtfully to Simeon Solomon's painting A Saint of the ...
Walls without Museums: Anonymous History, Collective Authorship and the Document
Jan 01, 2007; ... Much has been written about documentary film and photography, and a sizeable proportion of this writing has concentrated on work produced in Britain in the 1930s and 40s.1 Considerable effort has been put into dismantling any naïve belief that film or photography offers (or could offer) a ...
Loyal Subjects? Exhibiting the Hero of James Northcote's Death of Wat Tyler
Jan 01, 2007; ... Those who look at exhibited pictures are generally persons who at the time seek amusement, and will not subject themselves to any trouble; if they can comprehend the subject at first sight, well and good; if not, they will pass on to another picture. It is therefore necessary to make the story ...
'Fragments of an Unknowable Whole': Michelangelo Antonioni's Incorporation of Contemporary Visualities in London, 1966
Jan 01, 2007; ... On an overcast summer's day a series of telephoto photographs of figures standing at the far end of a street in Woolwich showed a dark and spare man addressing another, more relaxed, stocky male, standing before him (Figure 1).1 When one of this series was reproduced in the magazine Continental ...
'Pageantitis': Frank Lascelles' 1907 Oxford Historical Pageant, Visual Spectacle and Popular Memory
Jan 01, 2007; ... Introduction: 'Pageantitis' In 1907 in Oxford a serious outbreak of an 'affliction of the eye and mind known in professional circles as Pageantitis' was vividly depicted in a satirical postcard (Figure 1).1 This contagion swept across England and there were at least six other pageants ...
Francis Bacon and the Photobooth: Facing the Homosexual in Post-war Britain
Jan 01, 2007; ... In 1975, David Sylvester's Interviews with Francis Bacon provided the public with an unprecedented insight into the artist's life and working methods. As Michael Peppiatt has noted, the book appeared as something of a revelation, helping to secure Bacon's reputation as the leading post-war ...
British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People
Jan 01, 2007; ... British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People by Diana Maltz, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 How did an 'aesthete' live his or her life as art? With her important new study of British Aestheticism as a social movement, Diana Maltz provides a ...
Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility
Jan 01, 2007; ... Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility by Angela Rosenthal, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006 It is a common thing to write in a review, but this truly is an eagerly awaited book. Angela Rosenthal's Angelika Kauffman: ...