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'One of the aims of this introduction is to question the reliability of the dominant literature on Watts. Whether or not this tradition decanonizes or recanonizes Watts, its main aspiration has been to identify him with the idea of the unity of the artistic career and the life of the art work. We believe this claim - that the nature of Watts's work is revealed when its commitment to a humanist, symbolist or allegorical project is recognized - simply misrepresents the complexity of his art...Our introduction outlines and develops this conviction, stressing in particular Watts's capacity seemingly to erase the historical dimension from his life as an artist. In this way it acts as a critical bridge to the rest of the volume by signposting those material forms, interests and values that provided the social and cultural conditions for constituting and disseminating the meanings of his work to artistic groups, communities and publics.'
Author(s): Brown S, Trodd C
Editor(s): Brown, S., Trodd, C.
Series Editor(s): Peters Corbett, D.
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Representations of G.F. Watts: Art Making in Victorian Culture
Year: 2004
Pages: 1-25
Series Title: British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750: New Readings
Number of Volumes: 1
Publisher: Ashgate
Place Published: Aldershot
Notes: Reviews:'In their introduction Trodd and Brown question prejudicial attitudes in the dominant literature...they propose to counter mythic, ahistorical constructions..they argue that these nebulous qualities cannot be contained within conventional categories of Victorian art (and) propose to reinsert him into art historical discourse as ..'an unstable particle that disturbs customary assumptions.'' Marilynn Lincoln Board, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 14 Fall, 2005, University of York, Toronto, Canada. 'As the editors make clear in their introduction, their ambition is not simply to resurrect a neglected artist, or to restore his reputation to the level it enjoyed immediately before his death. Instead they describe the aim of the essays as being the "conversion" of Watts studies through the careful contextualisation of the work within the institutional and aesthetic framework of late Victorian culture.' Lynda Nead (Professor of art history, Birkbeck College) V&A Magazine, Summer 04
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ISBN: 9780754605980
