David Peters Corbett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1160681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Peters Corbett |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Peters |
| FAMILY NAME | Corbett |
| SIGNATURE | CORBETT D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Facingness in George Caleb Bingham’s River Paintings
This article is concerned with how the river paintings of George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) face us and how this fact implies an ethics of looking. It argues that the facingness of Bingham’s paintings is a way of affirming both their own aesthetic status and their relevance to prevailing political narratives of the time. Drawing on some recent and period writings about the face, the argument suggests that these paintings’ face-to-face encounter wi…
India in Art in Ireland
Modernity and Internationalism
Decreation and Undoing
American Laughter
Documents of American Art
Painting American frontiers
La perspective historiographique à travers laquelle les chercheurs voient l’Amérique, ainsi que la question incessante de la singularité de la ou des culture(s) de l’Amérique, ont été récemment développées et abordées selon des angles variables par les spécialistes de l’art américain du xixe siècle. Cet essai s’intéresse à l’idée de la terre, de son occupation et de sa colonisation, au contact avec d’autres cultures, d’autres lieux et d’autres fu…
Being British and Going … Somewhere
Paul Nash, in his article on ‘Going Modern and Being British’ in 1932, famously sought to reconcile these two disparate and puzzling qualities.1 He saw, and marvelled at, incompatibilities such as ‘internationalism versus the pastoral; the functional versus the futile’: Britishness was a ragbag of ancient quiddities and modernity something thrust upon it. Perhaps an appeal to the continuous and fluctuating nature of the present would provide the …
Ashcan Perspectives
Art, morality and the national interest
This article examines the relationship between the painters Frederic Edwin Church and Martin Johnson Heade, and the author Theodore Winthrop at a time when all three were tenants of the Tenth Street Studio building in New York City and Church was completing his important painting, The Heart of the Andes (1859). The article examines the close intellectual relationship between Church and Winthrop, who wrote a pamphlet to explicate Church's painting…
Anglo‐American
In late 1882 the American painter Winslow Homer arrived back in New York after eighteen months spent at the artists’ colony in Cullercoats, a fishing village near Tynemouth in the north of England. Over the next year, while working on a set of watercolours and oil paintings based on his English subjects, Homer began his enduring relationship with Prout’s Neck on the Maine coast. By the spring of 1883 he was permanently established in Maine, and a…
Camden Town and Ashcan
Visualising the Right Question
(2006). Visualising the Right Question. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 338-348
Anglo-Modernism
Journal Article Anglo-Modernism: Gender, Ethnicity and Value Get access David Peters Corbett David Peters Corbett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 28, Issue 3, October 2005, Pages 488–491, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kci042 Published: 01 October 2005
Visuality and Unmediation in Burne‐Jones’s Laus Veneris
This article argues that a contest between the image and verbal knowledge is central to the work of Burne‐Jones and that this contest thematizes cultural tensions around the capacity of the visual arts to deal adequately with the new conditions of contemporary experience. Contrary to most established readings, I argue that Burne‐Jones’s painting possessed for contemporaries the possibility of critical potential in its resistance to the instrument…
Gross Material Facts’
Sickert’s painting between 1905 and 1910 imagines the character of city experience within modernity through an explicit and programmatic depiction of the sordid character of urban lives, above all those of working‐class women. These lives and their surroundings stand for the incomprehensibility and alienness of modernity, and Sickert attempts to cope with this perception by subjecting his models to the gaze of a ‘dispassionate observer’, the pain…
Enemy Views
Wyndham Lewis the Artist: Holding the Mirror up to Politics by Tom Normand , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 230 pp., 58 b. & w. illus., £35.00 ‘The Talented Intruder‘: Wyndham Lewis in Canada, 1939–1945 by Robert Stacey , with contributions by Catherine M. Mastin, Robert Stacey and Thomas Dilworth , exh. cat., Windsor, Ontario: The Art Gallery of Windsor, 1992, 199 pp., 19 col. plates, 223 b. & w. illus., Can. $25.00 Wyndham Lewis a…
Life with Father
The Legacy of Menzies
Observers of Indian politics used to ask After Nehru, what? Mr. Nehru had seemed, for seventeen years, completely to dominate Indian policy. If that was true of India in the Nehru era, it was equally true of Australia in the Menzies era. For sixteen years, from 1949 to 1965, Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister, not only in the sense of first among equals, but Prime Minister in a particularly dominant, almost autocratic sense. Compared with him,…
Canada's Immigration Policy, 1957-1962
DURING Immigration from May, 1958 to August, 1962, the Honourable Ellen Fairclough introduced four notable changes in immigration policy and its administration. Though she did not bring before Parliament a revision of the Immigration Act, this may well be forgiven her if her other innovations turn out as well as they should. Mr. Diefenbaker, as Prime Minister, has devoted his talents as an orator to the cause of civil rights for all, regardless o…
A Comparative Study of the Indian Constitution
Immigration and Foreign Policy in Australia and Canada
policy plays a part in domestic politics and IMMIGRATION in international relations. Some of the leading authorities on international relations have been engaged in a great debate over which is better, a realist or an idealist approach to foreign policy. The purpose of this article is to compare the idealist and realist approaches to immigration policy and discuss their effects on domestic politics and international relations. Realism in foreign …
Immigration and Canadian Politics
first objective of society is its own survival; and if it is possible, a society will seek to grow, in order better to assure its survival. A nation seeks security through the maintenance of military power, material wealth, and the defence of certain spiritual or cultural principles which distinguish it from other nations. But more fundamental for its survival than these defences is the growth, or even the mere maintenance of its numbers. If a st…
Canada's Immigration Policy, 1957-1962
DURING Immigration from May, 1958 to August, 1962, the Honourable Ellen Fairclough introduced four notable changes in immigration policy and its administration. Though she did not bring before Parliament a revision of the Immigration Act, this may well be forgiven her if her other innovations turn out as well as they should. Mr. Diefenbaker, as Prime Minister, has devoted his talents as an orator to the cause of civil rights for all, regardless o…
The Legacy of Menzies
Observers of Indian politics used to ask After Nehru, what? Mr. Nehru had seemed, for seventeen years, completely to dominate Indian policy. If that was true of India in the Nehru era, it was equally true of Australia in the Menzies era. For sixteen years, from 1949 to 1965, Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister, not only in the sense of first among equals, but Prime Minister in a particularly dominant, almost autocratic sense. Compared with him,…
Immigration and Canadian Politics
first objective of society is its own survival; and if it is possible, a society will seek to grow, in order better to assure its survival. A nation seeks security through the maintenance of military power, material wealth, and the defence of certain spiritual or cultural principles which distinguish it from other nations. But more fundamental for its survival than these defences is the growth, or even the mere maintenance of its numbers. If a st…
Immigration and Foreign Policy in Australia and Canada
policy plays a part in domestic politics and IMMIGRATION in international relations. Some of the leading authorities on international relations have been engaged in a great debate over which is better, a realist or an idealist approach to foreign policy. The purpose of this article is to compare the idealist and realist approaches to immigration policy and discuss their effects on domestic politics and international relations. Realism in foreign …
Canada's Immigration Policy, 1957-1962
DURING Immigration from May, 1958 to August, 1962, the Honourable Ellen Fairclough introduced four notable changes in immigration policy and its administration. Though she did not bring before Parliament a revision of the Immigration Act, this may well be forgiven her if her other innovations turn out as well as they should. Mr. Diefenbaker, as Prime Minister, has devoted his talents as an orator to the cause of civil rights for all, regardless o…
A Comparative Study of the Indian Constitution
The Legacy of Menzies
Observers of Indian politics used to ask After Nehru, what? Mr. Nehru had seemed, for seventeen years, completely to dominate Indian policy. If that was true of India in the Nehru era, it was equally true of Australia in the Menzies era. For sixteen years, from 1949 to 1965, Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister, not only in the sense of first among equals, but Prime Minister in a particularly dominant, almost autocratic sense. Compared with him,…
Life with Father
Enemy Views
Wyndham Lewis the Artist: Holding the Mirror up to Politics by Tom Normand , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 230 pp., 58 b. & w. illus., £35.00 ‘The Talented Intruder‘: Wyndham Lewis in Canada, 1939–1945 by Robert Stacey , with contributions by Catherine M. Mastin, Robert Stacey and Thomas Dilworth , exh. cat., Windsor, Ontario: The Art Gallery of Windsor, 1992, 199 pp., 19 col. plates, 223 b. & w. illus., Can. $25.00 Wyndham Lewis a…
Gross Material Facts’
Sickert’s painting between 1905 and 1910 imagines the character of city experience within modernity through an explicit and programmatic depiction of the sordid character of urban lives, above all those of working‐class women. These lives and their surroundings stand for the incomprehensibility and alienness of modernity, and Sickert attempts to cope with this perception by subjecting his models to the gaze of a ‘dispassionate observer’, the pain…
Visuality and Unmediation in Burne‐Jones’s Laus Veneris
This article argues that a contest between the image and verbal knowledge is central to the work of Burne‐Jones and that this contest thematizes cultural tensions around the capacity of the visual arts to deal adequately with the new conditions of contemporary experience. Contrary to most established readings, I argue that Burne‐Jones’s painting possessed for contemporaries the possibility of critical potential in its resistance to the instrument…
Anglo-Modernism
Journal Article Anglo-Modernism: Gender, Ethnicity and Value Get access David Peters Corbett David Peters Corbett Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 28, Issue 3, October 2005, Pages 488–491, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kci042 Published: 01 October 2005
Visualising the Right Question
(2006). Visualising the Right Question. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 338-348
Ashcan Perspectives
Art, morality and the national interest
This article examines the relationship between the painters Frederic Edwin Church and Martin Johnson Heade, and the author Theodore Winthrop at a time when all three were tenants of the Tenth Street Studio building in New York City and Church was completing his important painting, The Heart of the Andes (1859). The article examines the close intellectual relationship between Church and Winthrop, who wrote a pamphlet to explicate Church's painting…
Anglo‐American
In late 1882 the American painter Winslow Homer arrived back in New York after eighteen months spent at the artists’ colony in Cullercoats, a fishing village near Tynemouth in the north of England. Over the next year, while working on a set of watercolours and oil paintings based on his English subjects, Homer began his enduring relationship with Prout’s Neck on the Maine coast. By the spring of 1883 he was permanently established in Maine, and a…
Camden Town and Ashcan
Being British and Going … Somewhere
Paul Nash, in his article on ‘Going Modern and Being British’ in 1932, famously sought to reconcile these two disparate and puzzling qualities.1 He saw, and marvelled at, incompatibilities such as ‘internationalism versus the pastoral; the functional versus the futile’: Britishness was a ragbag of ancient quiddities and modernity something thrust upon it. Perhaps an appeal to the continuous and fluctuating nature of the present would provide the …
Painting American frontiers
La perspective historiographique à travers laquelle les chercheurs voient l’Amérique, ainsi que la question incessante de la singularité de la ou des culture(s) de l’Amérique, ont été récemment développées et abordées selon des angles variables par les spécialistes de l’art américain du xixe siècle. Cet essai s’intéresse à l’idée de la terre, de son occupation et de sa colonisation, au contact avec d’autres cultures, d’autres lieux et d’autres fu…
Documents of American Art
American Laughter
India in Art in Ireland
Modernity and Internationalism
Decreation and Undoing
Facingness in George Caleb Bingham’s River Paintings
This article is concerned with how the river paintings of George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) face us and how this fact implies an ethics of looking. It argues that the facingness of Bingham’s paintings is a way of affirming both their own aesthetic status and their relevance to prevailing political narratives of the time. Drawing on some recent and period writings about the face, the argument suggests that these paintings’ face-to-face encounter wi…
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