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Routledge Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection (British Art: Histories and Interpretations since 1700)

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Keren Rosa Hammerschlag's Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection offers a timely reexamination of the art of the late Victorian period's most institutionally powerful artist, Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896). As President of the Royal Academy from 1878 to 1896, Leighton was committed to the pursuit of beauty in art through the depiction of classical subjects, executed according to an academic working-method. But as this book reveals, Leighton's art and discourse were beset by the realisation that academic art would likely die with him. Rather than achieving classical perfection, Hammerschlag argues, Leighton's figures hover in transitional states between realism and idealism, flesh and marble, life and death, as gothic distortions of the classical ideal. The author undertakes close readings of key paintings, sculptures, frescos and drawings in Leighton's oeuvre, and situates them in the context of contemporaneous debates about death and resurrection in theology, archaeology and medicine. The outcome is a pleasurably macabre counter-biography that reconfigures what it meant to be not just a late-Victorian neoclassicist and royal academician, but President of the Victorian Royal Academy.

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Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection (British Art: Histories and Interpretations Since 1700)

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1472414357
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts
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Release Date: 28 December 2015
Listed Since: 11 May 2015

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