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Scented Visions - Smell in Art, 1850-1914 (Hardcover)
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Scented Visions - Smell in Art, 1850-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives on Sensory History
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Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth
century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for
sanitation reform, and the rise in artificial perfumery. Meanwhile,
the science of olfaction remained largely mysterious, prompting an
impulse to “see smell” and inspiring some artists to picture
scent in order to better know and control it. This book recovers
the substantive role of the olfactory in Pre-Raphaelite art and
Aestheticism. Christina Bradstreet examines the iconography and
symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture.
Fragrant imagery in the work of John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Simeon Solomon, George Frederic Watts, Edward
Burne-Jones, and others set the trend for the preoccupation with
scent that informed swaths of British, European, and American art
and design. Bradstreet’s rich analyses of paintings, perfume
posters, and other works of visual culture demonstrate how artworks
mirrored the “period nose” and intersected with the most
clamorous debates of the day, including evolution, civilization,
race, urban morality, mental health, faith, and the “woman
question.” Beautifully illustrated and grounded in current
practices in sensory history, Scented Visions presents both fresh
readings of major works of art and a deeper understanding of the
cultural history of nineteenth-century scent.
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