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Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850-1914 book

Scented Visions: Smell in Art 1850-1914 book

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by Dr Christina Bradstreet

Beautifully illustrated and grounded in current practices in sensory history, Scented Visions presents both fresh readings of major works of art and a deeper understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century scent.

Dr Christina Bradstreet is an art historian specialising in Victorian art. She is Head of Programmes at the Association for Art History. 

Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian Aesthetic paintings are so often described as ‘multisensory’, but smell and its significance has been overlooked, despite being ‘under our noses’ all along. Many 19th - and early 20th-century ideas about smell and smelling, such as the belief that smell is disease or that rainbows emanate the sweet scent of fresh, wet meadows after a rainstorm, seem outlandish today. Yet this contextual information lends a new and vital perspective for understanding some of the most iconic Victorian paintings.”

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