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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-0dcafeef726f4639955ff2d1c1afca1f2022-12-22T03:37:56ZengYale UniversityBritish Art Studies2058-54622018-08-010910.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-09/creedWhat Do We Want from Artists’ Houses? A ReflectionChristopher Reed0Pennsylvania State UniversityThis 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.http://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-9/artists-housespatti smithLawrence Alma-TademaFrederic LeightonCharleston FarmhouseVanessa BellDuncan GrantArtists’ Houses |
| spellingShingle | Christopher Reed What Do We Want from Artists’ Houses? A Reflection British Art Studies patti smith Lawrence Alma-Tadema Frederic Leighton Charleston Farmhouse Vanessa Bell Duncan Grant Artists’ Houses |
| title | What Do We Want from Artists’ Houses? A Reflection |
| title_full | What Do We Want from Artists’ Houses? A Reflection |
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| title_short | What Do We Want from Artists’ Houses? A Reflection |
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| topic | patti smith Lawrence Alma-Tadema Frederic Leighton Charleston Farmhouse Vanessa Bell Duncan Grant Artists’ Houses |
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