DOC Atomic Ranch (NONE) by Jim Brown in Arts-Photography

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Traditionally; kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money;the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits; and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; however; reworked ideas about portraiture to promote the value and agendas of the ordinary middle classes. According to Kamilla Elliott; our current practices of "picture identification" (driverrsquo;s licenses; passports; and so on) are rooted in these late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century debates. Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction examines ways writers such as Horace Walpole; Ann Radcliffe; Mary Shelley; and C. R. Maturin as well as artists; historians; politicians; and periodical authors dealt with changes in how social identities were understood and valued in British culturemdash;specifically; who was represented by portraits and how they were represented as they vied for social power.Elliott investigates multiple aspects of picture identification: its politics; epistemologies; semiotics; and aesthetics; and the desires and phobias that it produces. Her extensive research not only covers Gothic literaturersquo;s best-known and most studied texts but also engages with more than 100 Gothic works in total; expanding knowledge of first-wave Gothic fiction as well as opening new windows into familiar work.