Masculinities in Victorian Painting

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-26900-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: The Nineteenth Century Series

This fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic. Powerful images from the work of dozens of Victorian artists - from Leighton, Waterhouse, Burne-Jones and Alma-Tadema to Dicksee, Pettie, Watts, Woodville and Tuke to name a few - are used to illustrate the 5 key paradigms of masculinity: the classical hero, the gallant knight, the challenged paterfamilias, the valiant soldier and the male nude. Aspects of 20th-century theory such as rescue compulsion, male sexuality, the male gaze and racial ideas are also considered. The author concludes that maleness was, and is, learned and 19th-century ideas still influence the construction of manhood today; that social institutions are influenced by, and themselves use, artistic representation; that artistic images strongly influence ideas of gender; and that multi-disciplinary cultural study is the best way to examine the formation of gender ideologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kestner, Joseph A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert Romantik (Kunstgeschichte)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttechniken & Prinzipien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Artistic Representation and the Construction of Masculinity; The Classical Hero; The Gallant Knight; The Challenged Paterfamilias; The Valiant Soldier; The Male Nude; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph A. Kestner