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The Chosen Race: Troubling Whiteness in Victorian Painting

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Availability:In StockContributor:Keren Rosa HammerschlagPublish date:2/3/2026Pages:276
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520420953ISBN-10:520420950UPC:9780520420953Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, European, DiscriminationBook Topic:19th CenturySize:10.00 x 7.09 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SCMD3A4KZ4

The Chosen Race: Troubling Whiteness in Victorian Painting

From the Realist canvases of the Pre-Raphaelites to the Aesthetic experiments of James McNeill Whistler, The Chosen Race confronts the complex negotiations of whiteness that played out across British art of the nineteenth century. Examining the representation of racial supremacy, difference, and indeterminacy in paintings produced in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, Keren Rosa...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520420953ISBN-10:520420950UPC:9780520420953Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, European, DiscriminationBook Topic:19th CenturySize:10.00 x 7.09 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SCMD3A4KZ4
Keren Rosa Hammerschlag is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National University in Canberra and author of Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection.
Publisher: University of California Press

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