Neo-Victorian Art: Review of Isobel Elstob, Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art: Britain and Beyond

Margaret D. Stetz

doi:10.5281/nvs.v15i2.400

Neo-Victorian Art

Review of Isobel Elstob, Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art: Britain and Beyond

Authors

Margaret D. Stetz University of Delaware, Delaware, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/nvs.v15i2.400

Keywords:

contemporary neo-Victorian art, Isobel Elstob, feminism, historical racism, neo-Victorian art exhibitions, Ingrid Pollard, Yinka Shonibare, visual art

Abstract

This review essay considers Elstob's Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art: Britain and Beyond in the context of recent neo-Victorian visual artworks and exhibitions and the relative scarcity of critical work on this aspect of neo-Victorian culture.