PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE PRE-RAPHAELIITE BROTHERHOOD

HUNT, William Holman

Published by Published by Macmillan & Co, London, 1905

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Two Volumes with 40 photogravure plates and other plates. Royal 8vo. pp. xxviii + 512. pp.xiv + 493. original green cloth with gilt titling. Top edges gilt. some toning, a little browning some pale foxing to early pages. and slight marking to the original cloth. The name Isbister to the end paper. A little bumped at head and tail of spine else a very good clean tight set. "The work is Hunt's polemical effort to define the nature of the Pre-Raphaelite movement along the lines of his ideas about the original PRB and its goals as an art movement. Hunt was unhappy that after 1850 Pre-Raphaelitism had regularly come to be identified with "Rossettiism". To his mind, the movement was only properly understood as grounded in plein-air painting committed to naturalistic fidelity. In addition, he believed that art should convey a strong moral argument Hunt was uninvolved with and uninterested in the literary goals of the original PRB group he did not appreciate how DGR's work would proliferate its influence in so many and so diverse ways. Aestheticism, Decadence, and some of the most important strains of Modernism" '.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE PRE-RAPHAELIITE BROTHERHOOD
• Publisher: Published by Macmillan & Co, London
• Publication Date: 1905
• Binding: Hardcover
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  • ART & ARCHITECTURE