The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape

Staley, Allen

ISBN 10: 0300084080 / ISBN 13: 9780300084085

Published by Paul Mellon Center for Studies, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001

About this Item

A Near Fine copy in a very good Dust Jacket of the completely revised and updated second edition of this important work on the Pre-Raphaelites, originally published by OUP in 1973. Dust Jacket: Pictorial laminated photo of Holman Hunt's 'Strayed Sheep' with white lettering to front and Ford Maddox Brown's 'An English Autumn Afternoon' with white lettering to rear' very clean and bright, slightest of bending to top edge (now protected). Cover: Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, slight bumping to outer corners; very clean and bright. Internally: very clean and tightly bound, looks almost unread; very small, discreet book plate from previous owner to front paste-down. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. xiii, 274 pp. A very large and heavy book which may incur increased postage charges.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Center for Studies, Yale University Press, New Haven and London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300084080
• ISBN 13: 9780300084085
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Edmonds

About this title

Synopsis

Allen Staley’s book The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape ignited a revival of interest in Pre-Raphaelite painting nearly three decades ago. Reintroducing the small group of young English artists who in 1848 founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, this landmark book helped to attract both scholars and a new generation of admirers to the brilliant and audacious work of the Pre-Raphaelites. In this completely revised and updated second edition, Staley takes into account important artworks that have recently come to light as well as current understandings of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and its legacy. This lovely volume is greatly enhanced by more than 150 luminous color illustrations.

Ranging widely in this volume, Staley offers a comprehensive account of the formation of the Brotherhood, the artists’ theoretical concerns about depictions of the natural world, and the emergence and impact of a school of Pre-Raphaelite landscape painting. Staley also discusses all the figures important to Pre-Raphaelitism: the artists (among them John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt), their associates (Ford Madox Brown, William Dyce), the landscape specialists they influenced (Thomas Seddon, George Price Boyce), and their most articulate supporter, John Ruskin.


Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

About the Author

Allen Staley is professor emeritus of art history at Columbia University.