In her most successful novel, Thornicrofts Model (1873), Margaret Hunt fictionalizes the Pre-Raphaelite couple Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal, as well as other historical artists and models, in order to voice her own critique of art and society. Hunt engages with popular modes of art criticism and participates in conversations surrounding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the women they depicted in their paintings. Framed as a biography of the artist and his model, Hunts novel questions the fidelity of the brotherhoods truth to nature, exposing that the artists erase the agency of the female model and render her invisible. Read alongside contemporary art criticism, historical studies of art and the figure of the model, Thornicrofts Model depicts the constraints that nineteenth-century women encountered, and in the end, Thornicrofts Model is a feminist intervention on behalf of all women participating in art.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-05012006-105204 |
| Date | 01 May 2006 |
| Creators | Doise, Jill |
| Contributors | Linda K Hughes |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/msword |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-05012006-105204/ |
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