Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces From The Tate

Gerard Vaughan

ISBN 10: 064233479X / ISBN 13: 9780642334794

Published by National Gallery of Australia, 2018

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Minimal wear to boards. Internally clean. Binding tight. 224pp In mid-nineteenth century Britain, a group of rebellious young artists emulated the spirit of early Renaissance painting in protest against the art establishment of the era and society at large. Radically flouting convention, these artists revelled in the use of brilliant colour, meticulous detail and exquisite layering. The Pre-Raphaelites drew inspiration from the great love stories of history and literature, the tempestuousness of lustful entanglements, and the wonder of religious icons. They created a new artistic genre, sometimes poetic and sexy and sometimes raw, that combined medieval romanticism with modern life to produce literary scenes, portraits and landscapes rich in symbolism. Love & Desire features 40 of the Tate's most famous and best-loved works, alongside 40 loans from other British and Australian collections. With masterpieces such as John Everett Millais' Ophelia 1851-52 and William Holman Hunt's The Awakening conscience 1853, this exhibition is a stunning survey of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Size: 245mm x 285mm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces From The Tate
• Publisher: National Gallery of Australia
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 064233479X
• ISBN 13: 9780642334794
• Binding: Pictorial Hardcover
• Edition: Exhibition Publication.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Art - Pre 1900/Art History/Art Method

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Synopsis

Combining rebellion, beauty, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelites constitute Britain's first modern art movement and still inspire 170 years later. Love and desire: Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces from the Tate presents an exceptional opportunity to see many of the Tate's most famous and best-loved paintings alongside Australia's major Pre-Raphaelite holdings and many of the finest works in British public collections.