Table of Contents

Introduction - Jane Desmarais, Martin Postle and William Vaughan
1. Naked civil servants: the professional life model in British art and society - Martin Postle
2. The Pre-Raphaelite model - Elizabeth Prettejohn
3. Modelling Godiva in the nineteenth century - Alison Smith
4. The model on the writers’ block: The model in fiction from Balzac to Du Maurier - Jane Desmarais
5. Still Lives: the Art of Edward Linley Sambourne - Reena Suleman
6. ‘A Great Sight’: Henry Scott Tuke and His Models - Michael Hatt
7. Overexposed? The model in British figurative art from Sickert to Freud - William Vaughan
8. Paper dolls: the found model in contemporary art - Catherine Wood
Appendix A: The Artist: Peter Blake in conversation with Colin Wiggins, Nottingham, 1999
Appendix B: The Model: Susannah Gregory in conversation with Jane Desmarais, London, 2001

About the Author

Jane Desmarais is Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths College, London. Martin Postle is Curator and Head of British Art to 1900 at the Tate Collection. William Vaughan is Professor Emeritus in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London