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de Mérode's Postcard Stardomby Michael Garval At the height of her renown, Belle Époque dancer Cléo de Mérode was arguably the most photographed woman in the world. Reproduced on postcards, her portraits traveled around the globe. Through this postcard stardom, Mérode pioneered a brand of celebrity that prefigured that of Hollywood stars in the decades ahead. |
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by Robin Nicholson
Widespread emigration from the Scottish Highlands in the nineteenth century offered subject matter not only to genre painters but also to landscapists, who found inspiration in the desolate depopulated landscape. This article examines the works of four artists who engaged with this subject and, in so doing, became part of a larger phenomenon of cultural self-invention that characterized Scotland in the Victorian age.
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| Elegant // Expressiv:
Von Houdon bis Rodin, Französische Plastik des 19. Jahrhunderts Reviewed by Caterina Pierre |
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| Jean-Jacques
Henner, Le dernier des romantiques Reviewed
by Gabriel P. Weisberg |
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| Hiram Powers:
Genius in Marble Reviewed by Theresa
Leininger-Miller |
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| Helene Schjerfbeck:
Het geheim van Finland Reviewed
by Marjan Sterckx |
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| Georges Seurat:
The Drawings Reviewed by Michael
Dorsch |
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| Déjà
Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces Reviewed
by Patricia Mainardi |
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| The
Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914, by Tamar
Garb Reviewed by Amy Freund |
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| Model and Supermodel:
The Artist's Model in British Art and Culture, Jane Desmarais,
Martin Postle, and William Vaughan, eds. Reviewed
by Susan Waller |
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| Odalisques and
Arabesques: Orientalist Photography, 1839-1925 by Ken Jacobson Reviewed by Radha Dalal |
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| Victorian and
Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance, John E. Law and
Lene Østermark-Johansen, eds. Reviewed
by Joel Hollander |
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 Interrogating
Gustave Moreau's Sphinx: Myth as Artistic Metaphor at the 1864 Salonby Scott C. Allan This essay offers a close reading of Gustave Moreau's Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864), informed by the artist’s statements and contemporary criticism. While traditionally the painting has been read as an allegory of spirit vs. matter, the author demonstrates that its significance may be more complex and that the sphinx may be seen as an archetypal figure for the very poetic and pictorial ideals that held the artist in thrall. |
 Pierre-Charles L'Enfant and the Iconography of Independenceby Sally Webster The French architect Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, best known for his plan for Washington, D.C., also produced several important decorative works in the 1780s. Focusing on these works, the author explores L'Enfant's invention of an iconography that signified the establishment of a new nation and its revolutionary claim of independence. |
 Reflections
of Desire: Masculinity and Fantasy in the Fin-de-Siècle Luxury
Brothelby Gina Greene This article examines the iconography of eroticism that informed the design of Parisian brothel interiors in the late nineteenth century. |
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 Théodore Rousseau's Forest of Fontainebleau by Mary G. Morton |