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The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibitions

Change and Continuity in the Victorian Art World

Christopher Newall author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Nov '04

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The story of the rise and fall of the most progressive gallery of the Victorian age.

Christopher Newall's book tells the story of the rise and fall of a gallery which was the most progressive exhibition space of the Victorian age, and his index of exhibitors allows the reader to discover which artists showed which works, and what they were, during the Grosvenor's fourteen summer exhibitions.The Grosvenor Gallery was the most progressive exhibition space of the Victorian age. The paintings and works of art shown there - by Burne-Jones, Watts, Whistler and a host of other figures associated with the aesthetic movement - challenged artistic convention and were the cause of virulent debate about the means and purpose of modern art, while the very existence of a gallery which attracted so much fashionable attention and which lent such great prestige to the artists who exhibited there served to overthrow the stultifying influence of the contemporary Royal Academy. Christopher Newall's book tells the story of the rise and fall of the Grosvenor Gallery, and his invaluable index of exhibitors, compiled from the now very rare original catalogues, allows the reader to discover which artists showed which works and what they were during the fourteen years of the Grosvenor's summer exhibitions.

"For anyone interested in the Victorian art world there could hardly be a more welcome book." Studies in English Literature

ISBN: 9780521612128

Dimensions: 242mm x 190mm x 11mm

Weight: 363g

196 pages