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The Pre-Raphaelites (Hardcover)
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman
Hunt. These were among the young British artists who, in the
revolutionary year of 1848, set out to return a lost vibrancy to
European art. Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,
they and their later followers - including Edward Burne-Jones and
William Morris - mounted an artistic front against what they saw as
the confining standards of the Victorian art world, and the
dehumanising aspects of the industrial age. Their works drew on
Shakespeare, Keats, Tennyson, and medieval lore. They also treated
religious and contemporary themes with striking realism, bringing
viewers into intimate contact with the subject and causing scandal
in their time. In this authoritative yet highly readable volume,
art historian Aurelie Petiot traces Pre-Raphaelitism from its
beginnings as a secret brotherhood to its dissemination in multiple
strands of British art and beyond. Petiot offers keen analyses of
Pre-Raphaelite painting, drawing, and decorative art alike. She
gives particular attention to the role of women in the movement,
not only as models and muses, but as pioneering artists in their
own right, whose work has only begun to receive its proper
recognition. Uniquely, the last chapters of the book are devoted to
the enduring (yet often underestimated) Pre-Raphaelite influence on
the later course of modern art and on our contemporary culture.
More than 300 full-colour illustrations reproduce all the great
Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces, as well as many fascinating
lesser-known works, with all the luminous brilliance and detail for
which the Pre-Raphaelites are renowned. This splendid volume is a
must-have for any art history lover.
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