Reading the Pre-Raphaelites

This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh appraisal of the Pre-Raphaelite artists of mid-Victorian England and their radical departure from artistic conventions. Tim Barringer explores the meanings encoded in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and finds a dynamic energy that arises from paradoxes at the heart of the movement, between past and present, historicism and modernity, and symbolism and realism.

Tim Barringer is assistant professor of the history of art at Yale University. He formerly taught at the universities of London and Birmingham and has published widely on Victorian visual culture.