Other than recount his extraordinary and terrifying athletic feats, why does Matthew Sweet feature Blondin so centrally in his book Inventing the Victorians? What does he signify in terms of Sweet's thesis?
Victorian Avant-Garde // A Seminar at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design at the George Washington University // Spring 2016 // Professor Casey Smith // kcs@gwu.edu // The painting above is by Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896, British, L'Enfant du Regiment, 1854 to 1855, Oil on paper, laid on canvas, mounted on board, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Blondin at Smithsonian Online
Other than recount his extraordinary and terrifying athletic feats, why does Matthew Sweet feature Blondin so centrally in his book Inventing the Victorians? What does he signify in terms of Sweet's thesis?
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