The Pre-Raphaelites at Home - Softcover

Pamela Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862055831 ISBN 13: 9781862055834

Publisher: Pavilion Books, 2003

Synopsis

Following on from the success of Bloomsbury at Home, Pamela Todd turns her attention to the fiery group of young artists, designers and thinkers, led by the charismatic figure of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which, in 1848, came together as the semi-secret Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. She explores their personalities and work through the places and haunts they made their own, presenting an intimate view of an important section of the avant-garde artistic community and placing it firmly in its Victorian context. The Pre-Raphaelites at Home is a book about personality and place. Biographies of each of the extensive cast of characters open the book, followed by a chronology of the significant events affecting the group over more than 60 years. In the succeeding chapters Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Thomas Woolner are joined by William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and their intimate circle. Place by place, we are led through the story of subtly shifting allegiance, of love and deaths, adultery and illness, as the angry young men became successful, and, in some cases, even respectable. The lively narrative, packed with quotation from their own work, is lavishly illustrated with full colour reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and portraits, photographs of interiors, furnishings and textile designs, and black and white contemporary photographs of the artists, their homes and their studios, as well as line drawings, sketches and cartoons from Punch and material from the Illustrated London News.

About this title

About the Author:

Pamela Todd has a first class degree in English literature and an MA in History of Art. Her researches into literary and artistic communities for her Ph.D thesis inform the present book. Her varied career began at Punch magazine (where George du Maurier once lampooned the Pre-Raphaelites with the kind of relish Private Eye nowadays reserves for Damien Hirst) and continued in publishing, as an editor and later literary agent, for twenty years. Her journalism has appeared in Punch, Cosmopolitan, and She magazine. Her eleven books include The Impressionists' Table and Bloomsbury at Home, both published by Pavilion.

Review:

'Thoroughly researched and spanning more than 60 years, this book is beautifully illustrated with reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and portraits, photographs of interiors and furnishings, poetry, letters and diary extracts.' The Argus

About this edition

• Publisher: Pavilion Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1862055831
• ISBN 13: 9781862055834
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192