Sir John Tenniel: Aspects of His WorkThis study deals with the early works of the influential illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, and with the ways in which the great debate of the 1840s in favor of the creation of an English school of history painting manifested itself in his art. Indeed, the historicist revival would be the driving force behind virtually all of his artwork throughout the whole of his life, including the work by which he is best known, his illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. |
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... taste and his sympathy with views on art that con- demned that taste and sought to re- form it . He was drawn to the Bohemian cliques of the 1840s , which were instrumental in the at- tempt to resurrect a school of En- glish history ...
... taste and his sympathy with views on art that con- demned that taste and sought to re- form it . He was drawn to the Bohemian cliques of the 1840s , which were instrumental in the at- tempt to resurrect a school of En- glish history ...
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... taste . The project to decorate the new Houses of Parliament with frescos in- tended to elevate the moral character of the British lower orders presents a domestic forum within which Tenniel was initially free to present his own beliefs ...
... taste . The project to decorate the new Houses of Parliament with frescos in- tended to elevate the moral character of the British lower orders presents a domestic forum within which Tenniel was initially free to present his own beliefs ...
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... taste for the grand manner.1 But it is more likely that that taste simply reflects the spirit of his generation . At any rate , he entered the School of the Royal Academy ( SRA ) in a brief association ended by his " utter disgust of ...
... taste for the grand manner.1 But it is more likely that that taste simply reflects the spirit of his generation . At any rate , he entered the School of the Royal Academy ( SRA ) in a brief association ended by his " utter disgust of ...
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... genre scenes produced ( and was not a product of ) a smallness of intellect , which was not however " the universal and unalterable taste of the nation . " 9 Artists themselves , certainly the less prominent or outspoken of Introduction 13.
... genre scenes produced ( and was not a product of ) a smallness of intellect , which was not however " the universal and unalterable taste of the nation . " 9 Artists themselves , certainly the less prominent or outspoken of Introduction 13.
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... taste . . . [ S ] ome of the greatest personages in England , who never had eaten a proper dinner in their lives , would have an opportunity for the first time , of witnessing art . Punch often attacked the medieval affectations of ...
... taste . . . [ S ] ome of the greatest personages in England , who never had eaten a proper dinner in their lives , would have an opportunity for the first time , of witnessing art . Punch often attacked the medieval affectations of ...
Contents
The Spirit of Justice | 25 |
The Competitions | 29 |
The Spirit of Justice and the Critics | 31 |
The Iconography of Reform | 35 |
Art and Institutions | 48 |
From Reform to Empire | 54 |
British Valhalla | 63 |
From Pretense to Parody | 64 |
The Nature of Satire | 108 |
From Punch to Alice The Tradition of Satire | 114 |
Punch Shakspeare | 122 |
Satire and Childrens Illustration | 138 |
Alice and the Popular Tradition | 143 |
Alice and the Tradition of 1840s Satire | 153 |
The Final Years | 164 |
Notes | 168 |
John Tenniel and the Language of Satire The Evangel of Common Sense | 73 |
Mr Punch and the Pope | 75 |
The Eglinton Tournament | 89 |
The Tournament | 95 |
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