Michaela Giebelhausen

Painting the Bible

Representation and Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Painting the Bible is the first book to investigate the transformations that religious painting underwent in mid-Victorian England. It charts the emergence of a Protestant realist painting in a period of increasing doubt, scientific discovery and biblical criticism. The book analyzes the position of religious painting in academic discourse and assesses the important role Pre-Raphaelite work played in redefining painting for mid-Victorian audiences. This original study brings together a wide range of material from high art and popular culture. It locates the controversy over the religious works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in debates about academicism, revivalism and caricature. It also investigates William Holman Hunt's radical, orientalist-realist approach to biblical subject matter which offered an important updating of the image of Christ that chimed with the principles of liberal Protestantism. The book will appeal to scholars and students across disciplines such as art history, literature, history and cultural studies. Its original research, rigorous analysis and accessible style will make it essential reading for anyone interested in questions of representation and belief in mid-Victorian England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781138264151
• ISBN-10: 1138264156
• Artikelnr.: 57047654

Autorenporträt

Michaela Giebelhausen is a lecturer in the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Translating the Bible for the age: Themes at once sacred and stale: the problem of religious painting
Painting the Bible: issues and methodologies
Part I Religious Painting and the High Art Ideal: Tradition, modification and innovation: Under the sanction of a Royal Academy: the lectures of Henry Howard and Charles Robert Leslie
The practice of religious painting and the periodical press
The case of Benjamin Robert Haydon: the reform of tradition and the quest for public space
Charles Lock Eastlake and the undefinable archquality of sentiment
Modification and innovation: continental influence and matters of genre
Part II The Fascination of Paradox: The Pre-Raphaelite challenge: A kindred simplicity: the search for an expressive language of art
Early Pre-Raphaelite work: Giottesque or grotesque?
A step too far: the signal for a perfect crusade against the PRB
Reading The Carpenter's Shop: a gesture of defiance
Part III The Making of William Holman Hunt as the Painter of Christ: Reconfiguring Christ: history, biography, myth
Illustrating the Bible: a context for Hunt's pictorial concerns
Private motivations: suppressing the religious experience
Public narratives: work, art and the figure of Christ as hero
Experiencing the East
Finding the Saviour, at last
The success of the Saviour: a contemporary reaffirmation of faith
The spheres of art and religion
Epilogue: Ideal subjects glowing with poetry
Notes
Bibliography
Index.