The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
by Elizabeth Prettejohn
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"In 1848, seven young, inexperienced English artists banded together to form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Together they created a novel style that bewildered its first audiences and retains the power to shock as well as to fascinate, a century and a half later. The first major publication on the Pre-Raphaelite movement in more than fifteen years, this exquisite volume incorporates the swell of recent research into a comprehensive up-to-date survey. The book explores the collaborative show more practices of the Brothers - including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt - and their close associates and accords a major role to the women artists of the Pre-Raphaelite circle." "Illustrated with one hundred and seventy color reproductions, this book concentrates closely on the visual impact of Pre-Raphaelite art. The materials, techniques, and working practices of the artists are revealed, using many close-up details. Furthermore, the book analyzes and considers how the Pre-Raphaelites responded to and commented on their time and place - a world characterized by religious and political controversy, new scientific concern for precise observation, the emergence of psychology, and changing attitudes toward sexuality and women." "The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites shows how this group developed to become one of the first and most distinctive movements in modern art, comparable to the Impressionists and later movements in France."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of good scholarly works written about the Pre-Raphaelites, as far as I have been able to discover (or, actually, on Victorian British art in general). This exhibition catalog, however, does an excellent job with both the history of the group and some of the major political, social, and religious concerns of the time period. She may not offer a lot of her own arguments, but Prettejohn gives an excellent cross-section of some of the work that has been done on the PRB. This combined with her excellent descriptive and analytical writing made this book a joy. Absolutely gorgeous full-color illustrations. I wish I could actually afford to buy this volume!
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Elizabeth Prettejohn is Associate Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Plymouth.
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- Canonical title
- The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
- Original publication date
- 2000-11
- Important events
- Pre-Raphaelites
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- Languages
- English, French
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