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The Enchanted Interior, Laing Art Gallery Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Challenge to the male gaze in mainstream art
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
A POPULAR theme in 19th-century painting is the depiction of domestic interiors as a “gilded cage” in which women are pictured as ornamental objects.
Trapped psychologically or physically, they’re the subject of iconic Pre-Raphaelite and British Orientalist paintings by artists such as Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt and John Frederick Lewis.
Their works are on show in the forthcoming exhibition The Enchanted Interior at Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, alongside works by their female peers such as Emma Sandys and Evelyn De Morgan which challenge and subvert the idealisation of women as captive damsels or passive beauties.
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