Narrating Modernity
Subtitle: The British Problem Picture, 1895-1914 (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750 New Readings)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780754635680
Subjects: Art styles: c 1900 to First World War; Gender studies; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Modernism; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History - General History; Collier, John,; Art; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Modernism (Aesthetics); Asia - India & South Asia; European; 1850-1934; Great Britain; Painting, Victorian; Themes, motives
First sentence: In his monograph on John Collier published in 1914, Walter Herries Pollock ventured a rhetorical guess at the origin of the by-then popular term 'problem picture': '1 can but hazard a theory that some critic heard somebody else, of abnormally dense intelligence, say words to this effect: "That picture puzzles me; it's quite a problem," and was suddenly struck by the unhappy thought that "problem-picture" would be something of a novel and effective phrase.