Misère
Subtitle: the visual representation of misery in the 19th century
By: Linda Nochlin
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780500239698
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Poverty in art; Industrial revolution in art; European Art; Poverty in literature; Suffering in art; Modern Art; Suffering in literature; History
Description: In 'Misère', famed art historian Linda Nochlin reveals how, in the new form of civilization produced by the Industrial Revolution, in which the phenomenal growth of wealth occurred alongside an expansion of squalor, writers and artists of the nineteenth century used their craft to come to terms with what were often new and unprecedented social, material, and psychological circumstances. Nochlin charts the phenomenon of misery as it was represented in the popular and fine arts of the nineteenth century. Examining work by some of the great intellects of the era--including Dickens, Carlyle, Engels, Hugo, Buret, Disraeli, and de Tocqueville--as well as relative unknowns who were searching for ways to depict new realities, Nochlin draws from a range of sources that include paintings, prints, newspaper illustrations, photography, and a variety of texts: from the account of a day in the life of an eight-year-old mine worker girl to the foundational texts of the field such as Friedrich Engels's The condition of the working class in England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Misère: the Irish paradigm; title: The gender of misery; title: Géricault, Goya and the representation of misery; title: Representing misery: Courbet's Beggar woman; title: Fernand Pelez: master of miserable old men; title: Conclusion.