Problem pictures were very popular during the Edwardian period. These pictures invited multiple interpretations of modern life and were often slightly risque. Pamela Fletcher explores how these works of art engaged with questions of gender, sexuality and identity during their heyday.
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In his monograph on John Collier published in 1914, Walter Herries Pollock ventured a rhetorical guess at the origin of the by-then popular term 'problem picture': '1 can but hazard a theory that some critic heard somebody else, of abnormally dense intelligence, say words to this effect: "That picture puzzles me; it's quite a problem," and was suddenly struck by the unhappy thought that "problem-picture" would be something of a novel and effective phrase. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Academy, John Collier, New Woman, Morning Post, Daily Mirror, Daily Sketch, Alfred Priest, Claude Phillips, Daily Mail, Mariage de Convenance, Edwardian Britain, William Quiller Orchardson, Burlington House, Charles Orchardson, Daily Telegraph, Pianola Piano, The Doll's House, Francis Bernard, Orchardson's Trouble, Alfred Harmsworth, Edwardian England, Frederick Howard Michael, Grosvenor Gallery, Honourable John, Lisa Tickner New!
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In his monograph on John Collier published in 1914, Walter Herries Pollock ventured a rhetorical guess at the origin of the by-then popular term 'problem picture': '1 can but hazard a theory that some critic heard somebody else, of abnormally dense intelligence, say words to this effect: "That picture puzzles me; it's quite a problem," and was suddenly struck by the unhappy thought that "problem-picture" would be something of a novel and effective phrase. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Academy, John Collier, New Woman, Morning Post, Daily Mirror, Daily Sketch, Alfred Priest, Claude Phillips, Daily Mail, Mariage de Convenance, Edwardian Britain, William Quiller Orchardson, Burlington House, Charles Orchardson, Daily Telegraph, Pianola Piano, The Doll's House, Francis Bernard, Orchardson's Trouble, Alfred Harmsworth, Edwardian England, Frederick Howard Michael, Grosvenor Gallery, Honourable John, Lisa Tickner New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England by Dr. Susan P. Casteras on 4 pages
- Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays (Icon Editions) by Linda Nochlin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Impressionism in Britain by Professor Kenneth McConkey in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism and the Edwardian Novel by Jane Eldridge Miller in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Sherlock Holmes by Frank Thomas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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