Title: Frederic Leighton : antiquity, Renaissance, modernity /
Authors: Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, 1830-1896.; Barringer, T. J.; Prettejohn, Elizabeth.
Publisher: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art [and] the Yale Center for British Art [by] Yale University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton,
Abstract: "This original collection of writings reinterprets the art of Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), challenging the view that limits him to the category of 'Victorian artist' and revealing his broader significance in the history of modern art. The book is the first to extend the discussion of Leighton beyond his life and works to address such current concerns as gender and sexuality, the artist's identity and self-positioning, and Leighton's position in relation to Aestheticism and Modernism. The contributors argue that not only does Leighton's profound commitment to the ancient and renaissance past not exclude him from an important role in modern art, but indeed it assures his position there."--Jacket.
Contents: The artist as artificer / Caroline Arscott -- Nature transformed : Leighton, the nude and the model / Alison Smith -- Drapery, sculpture and the Praxitelean ideal / Rosemary Barrow -- On translating Homer : prehistory and the limits of classicism / Robyn Asleson -- Aestheticising history painting / Elizabeth Pettejohn -- The apotheosis of the male nude : Leighton and Michelangelo / Lene Østermark-Johansen -- Leighton in Albertopolis : monumental art and objects of desire / Timm Barringer -- Drawing domestic decline : Leighton's version of Romola / Mark Turner -- Transparent bodies, opaque identities : personification, narrative and portraiture / Paul Barlow -- Leighton and the shifting repertoires of 'masculine' artistic identity in the late Victorian period / Andrew Stephenson -- From Burlington House to the Peckham Road : Leighton and art and design education / Rafael Cardoso Denis -- Decoration, display, disguise : Leighton House reconsidered / Louise Campbell -- Leighton and music / Michael Musgrave -- Leighton : a promoter of the new painting / Anna Gruetzner Robins.