| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : illustrations (some colour) |
| Series |
Perspectives on sensory history |
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Perspectives on sensory history.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I : seeing smell -- 1. The fallen angel -- 2. Art and stench -- 3. Picturing perfume -- 4. Smelling pictures -- Part II : decoding smell -- 5. Scent, memory, visions -- 6. Scent and soul -- 7. The erotics of scent -- 8. Death by perfume -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Explores the iconography and symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture, with a particular focus on Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism"-- Provided by publisher |
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Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, and the rise in artificial perfumery. Meanwhile, the science of olfaction remained largely mysterious, prompting an impulse to "see smell" and inspiring some artists to picture scent in order to better know and control it. This book recovers the substantive role of the olfactory in Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism.Christina Bradstreet examines the iconography and symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture. Fragrant imagery in the work of John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Simeon Solomon, George Frederic Watts, Edward Burne-Jones, and others set the trend for the preoccupation with scent that informed swaths of British, European, and American art and design. Bradstreet's rich analyses of paintings, perfume posters, and other works of visual culture demonstrate how artworks mirrored the "period nose" and intersected with the most clamorous debates of the day, including evolution, civilization, race, urban morality, mental health, faith, and the "woman question."Beautifully illustrated and grounded in current practices in sensory history, Scented Visions presents both fresh readings of major works of art and a deeper understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century scent |
| Analysis |
Aestheticism |
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Cultural history of smell |
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Decadence |
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George Frederick Watts |
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John Singer Sargent |
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Miasma |
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Millais |
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Nineteenth-century painting |
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Odor / Odour |
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Olfactory |
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Perfume |
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Pre-Raphaelitism |
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Rossetti |
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Scent |
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Sensory history |
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Simeon Solomon |
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Smell |
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Synaesthesia |
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Victorian art |
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Victorian painting |
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Victorian studies |
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Waterhouse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) |
| Subject |
Odors in art -- History -- 19th century
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Odors in art -- History -- 20th century
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Art, Modern -- 19th century.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Pre-Raphaelitism.
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Art for art's sake (Movement)
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Pre-Raphaelite.
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ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).
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Art for art's sake (Movement)
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Art, Modern
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Odors in art
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Pre-Raphaelitism
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780271092584 |
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0271092580 |
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9780271092577 |
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0271092572 |
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