The Victorians: British Painting, 1837-1901 AS NEW kk

Washington D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full gilt-embossed burnished-red cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 255, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Pro-Quest notes: "Like any art catalogue, this volume, which accompanied The Victorians exhibition last year at the National Gallery of Art, performs the essential chore of informing museum visitors about which artists painted which pictures, the technique and process of their painting, the style and manner of execution. There is also a commendable logocentric interest in the texts and references upon which Victorian artists often depended for inspiration. It is well-assembled material, all in the comfortable Panofsky paradigm of the 101 survey. But in the last two decades especially, art history has become a series of questions rather than a collection of answers. Placating readers with the simple satisfactions of biographies and reviews rather misses the point students, docents, and visitors enjoy the new interpretations of art history's range and purposes. They enjoy the scholarly chase; it is enlivening to discussion, even discussions held in front of canvases hung on the National Gallery walls."