Product Description: How did William Blake achieve classic status? What aspects of his art and personality attracted and repelled critics? How was the story of his afterlife coloured by debates and developments in the British art world? Moving between visual and literary analysis, Visions of Blake: William Blake in the Art World 1830-1930 considers the ways in which different audiences and communities dealt with the issue of describing and evaluating Blake's images and designs...read more

Product Description: Paintings and sculpture by Watts (1817-1904) were written off by the Bloomsbury modernist tradition as an impossible concoction of the classical and the demotic, the heroic and the sentimental, the amorphous and the capricious, and critics have continued to confine him to the shadows of the late-Vi...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: London in the 19th century saw the founding of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Other, less permanent organizations also flourished, among them the British Institution, watercolour societies and the Society of Female Artists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Intellectually broad and carefully grounded in fundamental issues affecting the time, role, and place of the academy in society, this collection explores the ways in which art and tradition are either maintained or rearticulated late in the Victorian Era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Monstrous, absurd, humorous, demotic and contradictory: the Grotesque is a protean force working across different areas of Victorian life. This text examines a wide range of sources and materials in order to provide new readings of an important force that oscillates between "style" and "concept"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)