商品簡介
This study is the first to examine the women included in the British National Portrait Gallery, who were granted the honor based on their significance to the "civil, ecclesiastical and literary history of the nation." Perry (art history, U. of Brighton) reframes the Victorian fascination with women's domestic and sentimental presence by locating it within a Parliament-centered national culture. She discusses the Gallery Trustees' governance through three themes: the cult of legitimacy in antiquities and in national identity; the educated woman as a model of domestic and national cultivation; and the role of female beauty in defining social and artistic power in 19th-century Britain. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Lara Perry, Lecturer in Visual Culture, School of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Brighton, UK
