Dickens and the artists
By: edited by Mark Bills ; with contributions by Pat Hardy, Leonée Ormond, Nicholas Penny and Hilary Underwood
Contributors: Watts Gallery
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780300176025
Subjects: Art and society; Friends and associates; Victorian Art; Art and literature; Themes, motives; Criticism and interpretation; History
Notes: Dickens and the Artists has been written to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey, from 19 June until 18 October 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part the first: Dickens as art critic. Dickens and philistinism / Nicholas Penny; title: Dickens and contemporary art / Leonée Ormond; title: Part the second: The influence of Dickens on the artists. 'Little Nell without laughing': Dickens subjects in Victorian art / Hilary Underwood; title: Dickens and the painting of modern life / Mark Bills; title: Dickens and social realists: 'too real to be pleasant' / Pat Hardy.