Modern Life with a Vengeance ; This Lavishly Illustrated Volume On Victorian Painting Serves As the Perfect Introduction to an Unfashionable Genre
Evening Standard - London › February 16, 2009
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THE VICTORIANS: BRITAIN THROUGH THE PAINTINGS OF THE AGE by Jeremy Paxman (BBC Books, Pounds 25)
AS A GRAND statement of ambition and self-confidence, the Euston Arch, erected in 1837, the year of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne, took some beating. So when the arch was pulled down in the early 1960s, one of many Victorian victims of the philistine planners of the decade, it sent a powerful message about modern attitudes to the artistic legacy of the 19th century.See the full content of this document
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Modern Life with a Vengeance ; This Lavishly Illustrated Volume On Victorian Painting Serves As the Perfect Introduction to an Unfashionable Genre
Victorianism had become a byword for everything stuffy, repressive and irredeemably bourgeois, and on cities across Britain the planners put up the sign: "Everything must go." And when, in ...
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