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The Chosen Race: Troubling Whiteness in Victorian Painting

The Chosen Race: Troubling Whiteness in Victorian Painting

Hammerschlag, Keren Rosa

Hardcover

European ArtGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0520420950
ISBN13: 9780520420953
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.94 Width: 7.09 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
From the Realist canvases of the Pre-Raphaelites to the Aesthetic experiments of James McNeill Whistler, The Chosen Race confronts the complex negotiations of whiteness that played out across British art of the nineteenth century. Examining the representation of racial supremacy, difference, and indeterminacy in paintings produced in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag explores the many ways Victorian painters engaged with racial ideas at the height of British imperial dominance. While at times these painters reinforced racial hierarchies, at other times they problematized them, revealing race to be a fundamentally unstable organizing principle by which to build an empire and classify its subjects.

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