Research Catalog

Title

The art of the Pre-Raphaelites / Elizabeth Prettejohn.

Author

Prettejohn, Elizabeth.

Publication

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

304 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"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 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.

Subjects

• Art, English
• Painting, English
• Art, English > 19th century
• Painting, English > 19th century
• Pre-Raphaelitism > England

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-299) and index.

Contents

1. Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood --2. Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood --3. Pre-Raphaelitism --4. Technique --5. Pre-Raphaelite realism: landscape and the human model --6. Gender and sexuality --7. Contexts for pre-Raphaelitism.

ISBN

• 0691070571
• 9780691070575

LCCN

00103168

OCLC

• ocm45426840
• 45426840
• SCSB-1143676

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library