Mural Painting in Britain, 1840-1940: Image and Meaning. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Clare A. P. Willsdon. Mural Painting in Britain, 1840-1940: Image and Meaning. (Clarendon Studies in the History of Art.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xxxvi, 431. $120.00. ISBN 0-19-817515-9.

British mural painting would for many years have been considered an unworthy, possibly even an oxymoronic subject for a monograph. Although British medieval wall paintings received thorough treatment by such inter-war luminaries as E. W. Tristram, it has long been a matter of general consensus that the Reformation had sounded the death knell of this very public and usually ...

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