Art of the Pre-Raphaelites

Name: Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
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ISBN: 9780691070575

ISBN-10: 0691070571

ISBN-13: 9780691070575

Edition: 2001

Authors: Elizabeth Prettejohn

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Though always controversial in art circles, the Pre-Raphaelites have also always been extremely popular with museum goers. This accessible new study provides the most comprehensive view of the movement to date. It shows us why, a century and a half later, Pre-Raphaelite art retains its power to fascinate, haunt, and often shock its viewers. Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt produced a statement of ideas that revolutionized art practice in Victorian England. Critical of the Royal Academy's formulaic works, these painters believed that painting had been misdirected since Raphael. They and the artists who…

Book details

List price: $84.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/12/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.75" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 3.652



Preface and Acknowledgments


Prologue



Stories of Pre-Raphaelitism



Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood



Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood



Pre-Raphaelitism



Studies in Pre-Raphaelitism



Technique



Pre-Raphaelite Realism: Landscape and the Human Model



Gender and Sexuality



Contexts for Pre-Raphaelitism


Epilogue


Abbreviations: Illustrations and Frequently Cited Sources


Notes


Glossary ofNames


Chronology


Annotated Bibliography


Index