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Ancient Greece
archaeology
Athlete Wrestling
Author_Keren Rosa Hammerschlag
Bridgeman Images
Britain
British art
British artist
Camille Silvy
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Central Male Figure
Dalziel Brothers
death and dying
Deathbed Scene
drawing
England
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Feigned Death
Female Nude
Ferens Art Gallery
fresco
Ghostly Death
Guildhall Art Gallery
Leighton House Museum
Leighton's Athlete
Leighton's Paintings
Leighton's Work
macabre
Male Nudes
Material Resurrection
medicine
neoclassical
nineteenth century
painting
Pall Mall Budget
Photo Credit
Royal Academy
Russell Cotes Art Gallery
sculpture
Serpentine Line
Summer Slumber
theology
Victorian era
Victorian studies
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138548350
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Keren Rosa Hammerschlag is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
