English Art, 1860-1914 - Lara Perry

How "modern" is the art made in England between 1860 and 1914?
England in this period was a highly modernized society, but the art it
produced is not "modernist" in the sense that the word has been used to
describe French art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book
seeks to break the association of "modern" art in England with French
models and to describe anew the relationship between English art,
England's artists, and their modern culture.
The collection presents in a single volume an introduction to the
variety and depth of current innovative work on English art. Through a
series of essays by leading scholars, dealing with themes including the
new professionalism in art, the gendered nature of institutions, the
rise of Aestheticism, and the fragmentation of the art world, the book
brings into focus this crucial and fascinating period by offering a
series of openings for a new map of modern art in England. By
identifying an array of responses to modern life and experience, the
essays inaugurate a revisionist view of the period and reveal that
modern English artists and art were profoundly involved with questions
about the relationship between artistic tradition and the circumstances
and subjects of modern life and modern art practice.
Contributors include Paul Barlow, Tim Barringer, Jane Beckett, Pamela
Fletcher, Alicia Foster, Kenneth McConkey, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Andrew
Stephenson, Lisa Tickner, and Janet Wolff.