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Writing poetry, fiction & interdisciplinary criticism | PhD @SurreySLL & @WattsGallery: Self-Fashioning & Celebrity in Photography of the 19c Artist's Studio
May 9, 2019 49 tweets 14 min read
I mean not that I wrote an entire 30,000 word MRes thesis on almost precisely this subject, but what I have to say about this is 80s text meme which says yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes "Central Principle" - so are we talking 1st or 2nd wave Pre-Raphaelitism? Inasmuch as there even were central principle(s), they were an *aesthetic* return to medievalism, paired with liberal, socialist politics.