VICTORIAN ART HISTORY: RAP 2 UNWRAPPED
| Autor: | Joseph A. Kestner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Victorian Literature and Culture. 29:149-158 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1553 1060-1503 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1060150301291098 |
| Popis: | AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Victorian painting experienced at least one mass media event, so far as circulation is concerned — the appearance of Frederic Leighton’s The Bath of Psyche (1890) on the wall of the drug kingpin in Paul Thomas Anderson’s notorious film Boogie Nights of 1997. As a ferocious deal is going awry, over the desperate dealers looms one of the masterpieces of the Victorian High Renaissance, a commentary through the cool classicism of the late Victorians about the corresponding fin-de-siècle of the lately finished century. It is a stunning moment — perhaps recognized only by historians of British art — but there it is nonetheless. One is to presume that the dealer has acquired the original from the Tate Gallery, since he would never own a copy, let alone a poster! Busboy superstud Mark Wahlberg has brief, violent contact with a masterpiece. |
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