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SUMMARY:Curating Feeling: Victorian Sentimental Art - Vicky Mills (Univers
 ity of Cambridge\, English)
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CONTACT:Xinyi Liu
DESCRIPTION:This talk will discuss the experience of co-curating an exhibi
 tion at Tate Britain on the theme of ‘Victorian Sentimentality’. The p
 aintings\, on display at the Tate until November 30th\, are arranged in cl
 assic categories of Victorian sentimentality (animals\, jilted women\, fam
 ilies under stress\, old age\, dying children) but in a way that suggests 
 different approaches to appreciating this kind of art. In particular\, we 
 focus on identifying and valuing an aesthetics of sentimentality in these 
 paintings\, which were both admired and condemned by Victorian critics. \n
 \nI will consider the museum’s role in determining the value of Victoria
 n sentimental art\, both in the nineteenth century and today. The first pa
 rt of the talk will discuss nineteenth-century debates about sentimental a
 rt and literature and consider how the term ‘sentimental’ was used in 
 the Victorian period as a signifier of aesthetic value.  I will focus on t
 he debates over the Chantrey Bequest in relation to Joseph Clark’s Mothe
 r’s Darling\, 1884 and the modernist critique of Luke Fildes’s The Doc
 tor\, 1891. Secondly\, I will discuss the experience of curating the displ
 ay as an attempt to represent Victorian sentimental art to a contemporary 
 audience.\n
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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