From the House of Life to the Decorative Arts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ceramics by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

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Jacqueline Yallop, Magpies, Squirrels & Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World by Laurence Constanty-Roussillon

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Whats the Matter?: The Object in Australian Art History by Peter McNeil

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Reading the Colours of Victorian Interiors: The Poetic Home Revisited by Charlotte Ribeyrol

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John Ruskin, William Morris and Walter Pater: From Nature to Musical Harmony in the Decorative Arts by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…John Ruskin’s claim that what is essential in all art is to fashion by hand what the eye sees clearly, blurred the divide between the fine arts and the decorative arts. …”
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Topsy Turvy de Mike Leigh : l’envers du décor ou la norme mise à mal by Isabelle Cases

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John Charles Robinson in 1868: a Victorian curator’s collection on the block by Elizabeth Pergam

“…By examining the objects in the sale, who bought them, and how they were written about, we are able to correct earlier misperceptions of Robinson and his career at this moment, as well as draw broader conclusions about the role of the curator, the art market, and cross-channel relationships. Robinson stands as an exemplar of the recognition of curatorial expertise in the connoisseurship of paintings, drawings, and decorative arts at a period of rapid museum growth and concomitant shifts in the market for works of art both in Britain and the Continent.…”
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Microorganisms, Microscopes, and Victorian Design Theories by Ariane Varela Braga

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Victorian Exploration of Human and Nonhuman on the Pamir Mountains by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

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Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture by Ferng, Jennifer H.

“…Torn between remaining common men with ordinary tastes and becoming savants who could be assimilated into the proper world of art, these British artisans serve as reminders of those who brought some of the most important Victorian issues of class, economics, education and gender to the attention of their middle-class peers, as well as to contemporary consumers of decorative ornament.…”
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A study of the Arundel Society 1848-1897 by Ledger, T

“…The council's aim in recording and publishing these endangered works of art was to educate the taste of the public and inspire artists to embark on programmes of mural decoration. …”

Clutter and the Clash of Middle-class Tastes in the Domestic Interior by Ferry Kathryn Rachel

“…This article seeks to examine middle-class taste on its own terms and reveals how it evolved under the influence of the Aesthetic or “Art” Movement of the 1870s. Though ideas about what constituted “good” taste were more widely disseminated after this period the Victorian love of clutter continued unabated.…”
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The ‘envers du décor’ of Suffragette Imagery: Anti-Suffrage Caricature by Abby Franchitti

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Furnishing Nature: Textile Materiality and the Victorian Home in Alfred Hayes’s The Vale of Arden and Other Poems (1895) by Stefanie John

“…It links Hayes’s use of poetic form and imagery to late Victorian understandings of organicism in Arts and Crafts design and home decoration. …”
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Decoration, Deviation, and the Selected Edition: Some Poems of Lionel Johnson (1912) by Jeremy Valentine Freeman

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The Whitworth: a place for Industry and Art by Imogen Holmes-Roe

“…While he maintained a natural interest in technical education throughout his life, less is known about whether this support extended to the fine and decorative arts. Conversely, today the Whitworth is celebrated for its internationally significant collections of art and design and its contemporary exhibitions programme, but for many visitors the gallery’s association with the great Victorian mechanical engineer is less clear. …”
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Hurricane Katrina Hair: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Commemorative Hair Forms and Fragments Through the “Mourning Portraits” of Loren Schwerd by Esther Berry

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Liturgy and Music in Hereford Cathedral in the Time of Queen Victoria and Beyond by Tessa Murdoch

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Blindness and Design: Kneass’ Philadelphia Magazine for the Blind (1899) by Vanessa Warne

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Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer’s Poets of the Younger Generation (1902) by Sarah Parker

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