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Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites - The Anglo-American Enchantment (Paperback)
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Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites - The Anglo-American Enchantment (Paperback)
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First published in 1997, and written by leading scholars of the day
, these fifteen essays examine aspects of the reception and
collecting of Pre-Raphaelite Art, the social and cultural context
in which the work was favoured and acquired. Two major collections
provide the focus for the investigation: that of the Birmingham
city Museums and Art Gallery in the United Kingdom, and that of the
American Samuel Bancroft Jr, now part of the Delaware Art Museum.
The study of these two collections both formed in the late 1890',
places Pre-Raphaelite Art at nexus of contemporary cultural issues
that touched the lives of both the city council, intent on
establishing a public gallery of national importance, and a wealthy
American businessman, indulging a private passion for the work of
these artists. The contributors approach the issue in a variety of
ways, These include the study of the ambitions and self-perception
of collectors of the period, an analysis of the impact of John
Ruskin's campaign to establish Pre-Raphaelite painting as the 'Art
of England' , and its impact on notions of civic and national
identity ; the examination of individual painting in relation to
such issues as the portrayal of women, the nude and of religious
subjects ; and the study of the Victorian preoccupation with
Renaissance Italy and the attempt by Ruskin, Charles Fairfax Murray
, advisor to the two collections, and the Grosvenor Gallery, to
proclaim the Pre-Raphaelite artists as the true inheritors of the
'genius' of Renaissance Italian artists.These essays were first
presented at a symposium held at the Delaware Art Museum during the
exhibition there of the paintings of Birmingham City Museums and
Art Gallery.
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