This study offers a fresh examination of Norris' endeavors as an Academic artist, anatomical draughtsman, and illustrator. Chapter 1 presents an overview of how the perception of Norris vis-a-vis the visual arts has been developed by commentators over the past nine decades. / Chapter 2 assembles and analyzes available examples of Norris' own art work, the surviving evidence which prompted previous commentators evaluations, for the sake of determining the accuracy of their interpretations. / Chapter 3 describes the method and theory of late nineteenth-century French Academic art in order to establish the character of Norris' training and consequent values of his judgment. / Chapter 4 demonstrates how Norris' training in Academic theory and practice, and his years of experience as a draughtsman, played a crucial role when he fashioned the story of a young artist's unsuccessful struggle to become a Paris salon painter in the novel Vandover and the Brute. The precepts and techniques of his fiction grew out of those at the center of the French-inspired art world of his time. To understand their artistic milieu is to grasp not only the themes and characteristics of Vandover but the essential characteristics of the whole of his canon. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: A, page: 2836. / Major Professor: Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77230 |
| Contributors | Teague, David A., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 248 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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