Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design

Alison Smith, Tim Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Diane Waggoner,

ISBN 10: 0300194447 / ISBN 13: 9780300194449

Published by Yale University Press February 2013, 2013

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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain's first modern art movement, the Brotherhood combined rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision, and imaginative grandeur. Today, the works of the Pre-Raphaelites are among the best known of all English paintings, and yet they have often been dismissed or misunderstood as Victoriana or escapism. This fascinating book convincingly corrects that view, examining works in a wide variety of media and demonstrating the broad scope of the movement's revolutionary ideas about art, design, and society. Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelites' unflinchingly radical style, inspired by the purity of early Renaissance painting, defied convention, provoked critics, and entranced audiences. Many of their most famous paintings are featured, including Millais's 'Ophelia 'and Ford Madox Brown's 'The Last of England.' This book also includes sculpture, photography, and the applied arts, the last of which shows the important role the Brotherhood played in the early development of the Arts and Crafts movement and the socialist ideas of the poet, designer, and theorist William Morris. A persuasive new look at the Pre-Raphaelites, who rebelled against the art establishment of their day and strove to ensure that their works changed the society in which they lived Brand new copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design
• Publisher: Yale University Press February 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300194447
• ISBN 13: 9780300194449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Back Room - Art - European

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Synopsis

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain’s first modern art movement, the Brotherhood combined rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision, and imaginative grandeur. Today, the works of the Pre-Raphaelites are among the best known of all English paintings, and yet they have often been dismissed or misunderstood as Victoriana or escapism. This fascinating book convincingly corrects that view, examining works in a wide variety of media and demonstrating the broad scope of the movement’s revolutionary ideas about art, design, and society.

Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelites’ unflinchingly radical style, inspired by the purity of early Renaissance painting, defied convention, provoked critics, and entranced audiences. Many of their most famous paintings are featured, including Millais’s Ophelia and Ford Madox Brown’s The Last of England. This book also includes sculpture, photography, and the applied arts, the last of which shows the important role the Brotherhood played in the early development of the Arts and Crafts movement and the socialist ideas of the poet, designer, and theorist William Morris.

About the Author

Tim Barringer is professor of history of art at Yale University. Jason Rosenfeld is distinguished chair and professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College, New York. Alison Smith is curator and head of British art to 1900 at Tate Britain. Elizabeth Prettejohn is professor of history of art at the University of Bristol. Diane Waggoner is associate curator, department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.