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Strand, Somerset House
WC2R 0RN London
United Kingdom
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Caroline Arscott has lectured at The Courtauld since 1988: extending her study of the Victorian art world from an initial focus on modern life painting in the 1840s and 1850s into work on the pre-Victorian period (in relation to urban topography) and on the late Victorian period (in relation to the Aesthetic Movement). Her publications include articles on a wide range of Victorian artists including William Holman Hunt, Gibson, Millais, Leighton, Poynter, Whistler, Sickert, Tissot, Fildes, Scharf and Frith. She collaborated with Katie Scott in the publication of essays on art and sexuality, Manifestations of Venus (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2000). In 2008 she published William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London). This book addresses technical features of body building, the armaments industry, horticulture, angling and Victorian tattooing in its discussion of the work of Morris and Burne-Jones. She has an interest in scientific thought and technologies of the nineteenth century and is currently involved in a research collaboration between The Courtauld and University of California, Caltech on art and scientific modelling (Modeling Modelling) and another project with King’s College, London on art, literature and communications technologies of the Victorian period (Scrambled Messages).
She was a member of the Editorial Board of the Oxford Art Journal from 1998-2008 and continues to serve as Advisory Editor. Caroline was also local UK editor for RIHA (2009-2014). She was a member of the Council of the Paul Mellon Centre Advisory Council (2009-2013). From 2009 until 2014 she was Head of Research at The Courtauld with responsibility for the Research Forum programme of activities and for The Courtauld’s research strategy and Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission. She was Senior Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art in 2014-15, preparing a book on art and science in the 1870s.
Modern-Life Subjects in British Painting 1840-60
1979 → Jun 1988
University of Leeds
1978 → 1979
Newnham College Cambridge
1975 → Jun 1978
Yale Center for British Art
Sept 2014 → Nov 2014
Paul Mellon Centre for Study of British Art
2014 → 2015
Paul Mellon Centre
2009 → 2013
RIHA Journal
2009 → 2014
University of Leeds
2000 → 2003
Oxford Art Journal
1998 → 2008
University College, London
1997 → 2000
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 1995 → May 1995
Cardiff Institute, University of Wales
1993 → 1996
University of Leeds
1985 → 1987
University of Leeds
1983 → 1985
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