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Pre-Raphaelites : Victorian art and design / Tim Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld, Alison Smith ; with contributions by Elizabeth Prettejohn and Diane Waggoner.
LIBRA N6767.5.P7 B37 2012
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection N6767.5.P7 B377 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barringer, T. J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pre-Raphaelitism--Great Britain--Exhibitions.
- Pre-Raphaelitism.
- Pre-Raphaelites--Great Britain--Exhibitions.
- Pre-Raphaelites.
- Art, British--19th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, British.
- Morris, William, 1834-1896.
- Morris, William.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "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."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Victorian avant-garde / Tim Barringer and Jason Rosenfeld
- Medium and method in Pre-Raphaelite painting / Alison Smith
- Catalogue. Origins
- Manifesto
- History
- Nature
- Salvation
- Beauty
- Paradise
- Mythologies
- The Pre-Raphaelite legacy / Elizabeth Prettejohn.
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde" held at the Tate Britain, London, Sept. 12, 2012-Jan. 13, 2013, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Feb. 17-May 19, 2013 and at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, June 10-Sept. 30, 2013.
- "Checklist of works exhibited in Washington": p. 246-249.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245) and index.
- Publication date from publisher's website.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0300194447
- 9780300194449
- OCLC:
- 826648778
- Publisher Number:
- 99954139340
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