City of gold and mud
Subtitle: painting Victorian London
By: Nancy Rose Marshall
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300174465
Subjects: In art; Art and society; Manners and customs in art; Social classes in art; Victorian Genre painting; History
Other titles: Painting Victorian London
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. City of gold and mud : painting Victorian London; title: Looking at London : the public sphere and the individual; title: "The whirl and rush of harmony" : representing the London crowd; title: Imperial illumination : William Holman Hunt's London Bridge and royal spectacle in the modern city; title: "More than an empty show"? : William Logsdail's Ninth of November and civic pageantry; title: "As black and sweep-like as I could desire" : dirt, blackness, and the representation of street types; title: "A defiant parade of rags" : images of working-class children; title: Horror embodied : Luke Fildes's Casual ward; title: "Latent Edens" : the urban pastoral; title: "A dim world, where monsters dwell" : the spatial time of the Sydenham Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park.