dc.contributor.advisor |
Buchanan, I |
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dc.contributor.author |
Samarasinghe, Anya |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2017-07-21T00:34:45Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2017 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/34410 |
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dc.description |
Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.description.abstract |
In recent years there has been a renewed interest in Victorian art with a number of exhibitions devoted to showcasing the work from this period such as the ongoing Walker Art Gallery’s Victorian Treasures exhibition (27 January 2016 – 17 May 2017). This contemporary engagement with Victorian art is a marked contrast to the disparaging view of Victorian painting that was prevalent in the early to midtwentieth century. The interest in classicism forms a major focus in Victorian art and Victorian classical painters present a diverse collection of influences and styles facilitated through an array of movements in nineteenth-century art including Pre- Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Symbolism. In this respect, Victorian classicism can be viewed as more of a medley than a homogenous classification as an established movement. This thesis centres on four prominent Victorian classical painters and their approach to classical subjects. Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-96), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), Sir Edward Poynter (1836-1919) and John William Waterhouse (1849- 1917) all engaged with classical themes as a significant portion of their oeuvres, with their individual approaches differing and intersecting. Each chapter in this study is dedicated to one of these four Victorian classicists. Through analysis of a selection of the artists’ classical works, this thesis aims to unveil the aesthetic and intellectual interests and practices that underpin each artist’s approach to classical subjects, and how their approaches compare and contrast with each other. In terms of scholarship on Victorian classical painters, Christopher Wood’s 1983 book Olympian Dreamers: Victorian Classical Painters 1860-1914 explored the classical movement by concentrating on five artists who played a significant role in its development, Leighton, Alma-Tadema, Poynter and G.F. Watts. This thesis adopts a similar approach by selecting four artists who represent the diverse and layered style of Victorian classicism, though engaging in a focused and comprehensive stylistic analysis of the four artists’ explorations of classical subjects. Amongst the collection of monographic studies on Victorian artists and broader scholarship on Victorian art movements, there is a vast repository of information on the artists and their works derived from contemporary nineteenth-century biographers, lectures and journals, most notably The Athenaeum and The Art Journal. These nineteenth-century sources provide valuable insight into the reception, motives and taste of Victorian classical painters. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA99265067201002091 |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights |
Restricted Item. Available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
A Victorian Odyssey: Classicism in the Works of Leighton, Alma-Tadema, Poynter and Waterhouse |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Art History |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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pubs.elements-id |
638677 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Humanities |
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pubs.org-id |
Art History |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2017-07-21 |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112934839 |
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