Caroline Arscott is an Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the

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.Professor Caroline Arscott, Head of Research.
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Career

Arscott studied at Newnham College Cambridge and the

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. She is an expert on art of the Victorian period and has lectured at The Courtauld since 1988. From 2009 until 2014 she was Head of Research at The Courtauld with responsibility for the Research Forum programme of activities and for The Courtauld's research strategy and

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submission. She has published extensively on

Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August, 183317 June, 1898) was a British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, Ford Madox Brown and Holman Hun ...

and

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, including the book ''Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris: Interlacings'' (2008). Arscott was on the ''

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'' editorial board from 1998 to 2008 and continues to serve as Advisory Editor. She was an editor of the '' RIHA Journal'' from 2009 to 2014.

Selected publications

*"Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98)" in E. Prettejohn (ed.), ''The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites'', Cambridge:

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, 2012. *"Everyday Variety and Classical Constraint in Victorian Drawings" in ''Life, legend, landscape: Victorian drawings and watercolours'' edited by Joanna Selborne, exhibition catalogue, London: The Courtauld Gallery, 2011.
''Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris: Interlacings''

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, New Haven and London, 2008. *"William Powell Frith’s The Railway Station: Classification and the Crowd", in ''William Powell Frith, exhibition catalogue'', London, Guildhall Art Gallery, November 2006, pp. 79–93. *"Representations of the Victorian City" in M. Daunton, (ed.), ''Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Volume Three (1840–1950)'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, p. 811-32. *"Convict Labour: Masking and Interchangeability in Victorian Prison Scenes", ''Oxford Art Journal'', vol. 23, no. 2, 2000, pp. 119–42 (on Frith).

References

External links

Caroline Arscott talking about ''Subject and Object in Whistler: The Context of Physiological Aesthetics'' on YouTube.
Living people Academics of the Courtauld Institute of Art Alumni of the University of Cambridge British art historians Year of birth missing (living people) British women art historians {{UK-historian-stub