What Do We Want from Artists’ Houses? A Reflection
This article, based on a plenary lecture for the conference Alma-Tadema: Antiquity at Home and on Screen, explores the attractions of the artist’s house as a site of display in the late Victorian era, the early twentieth century, and today. Comparing the houses of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic L...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2018-08-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-9/artists-houses |
| Summary: | This article, based on a plenary lecture for the conference Alma-Tadema: Antiquity at Home and on Screen, explores the attractions of the artist’s house as a site of display in the late Victorian era, the early twentieth century, and today. Comparing the houses of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton with Charleston Farmhouse, home of the Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, I invoke the comments of viewers from Walter Sickert to Patti Smith in order to examine the relationship between the look of surfaces and viewers’ perceptions of psychological depth. |
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| ISSN: | 2058-5462 |