Misere

The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century

By: Linda Nochlin

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Hardcover | 10 April 2018

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An incisive new piece of scholarship from renowned art historian Linda Nochlin tackling the concept of “misere,” or social misery, as it was reflected in the work of writers, artists, and philosophers in the nineteenth century

In Misere, famed art historian Linda Nochlin reveals how, in the new form of civilization produced by the Industrial Revolution, in which the phenomenal growth of wealth occurred alongside an expansion of squalor, writers and artists of the nineteenth century used their craft to come to terms with what were often new and unprecedented social, material, and psychological circumstances.

Nochlin charts the phenomenon of misery as it was represented in the popular and fine arts of the nineteenth century. Examining work by some of the great intellects of the era?including Dickens, Carlyle, Engels, Hugo, Buret, Disraeli, and de Tocqueville?as well as relative unknowns who were searching for ways to depict new realities, Nochlin draws from a range of sources that include paintings, prints, newspaper illustrations, photography, and a variety of texts: from the account of a day in the life of an eight- year- old mine worker girl to the foundational texts of the field such as Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England.

80+ illustrations

About the Author

Linda Nochlin is Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art Emerita at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Her publications include The Body in Pieces; Women, Art and Power; The Politics of Vision; Representing Women; Courbet; and Women Artists. Her essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? is considered one of the most influential texts in modern art history.

Industry Reviews

'Nochlin's influence on critical writing and teaching is legendary, and this engrossing analysis of the visual representation of misery in the 19th century is a must-read for anyone hoping to address our troubling times' - Cindy Sherman
'This slim, erudite, enlightened volume is a heartfelt coda to [Linda Nochlin's] oeuvre' - Financial Times
'Brilliant and important ... Nochlin was a trailblazer to the end' - Apollo
'Nochlin speaks clearly and simply to the ongoing question of whether art can or should be form of activism' - Art Review
'A fresh perspective to the emotive and controversial subject of depicting the poor ... insightful art criticism meets social history' - The Lady
'What endures in this final book is a fixation with the past as a portal to present miseres, whether persistent gender inequalities or economic disparities as extreme as those of the industrial age' - Scotland on Sunday
'It is to Linda Nochlin's credit that she found the words to match the images that form the heart of this beautifully produced book' - Spectator
'Lively and fascinating ... a valuable publication' - Irish Arts Review

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