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This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of
the most intriguing periods of British art-the radically innovative
decade of the 1860s. The book explores new developments in English
painting of this period, focusing on the early work of Edward
Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter,
Simeon Solomon, and James McNeill Whistler, as well as on paintings
by Frederick Sandys and the older G. F. Watts, and by Dante Gabriel
Rossetti and his Pre-Raphaelite colleagues Holman Hunt and John
Everett Millais. Allen Staley argues that engagement in the
decorative arts, particularly by Burne-Jones, Moore, and Poynter at
the outset of their careers, led to a transcending of traditional
expectations of painting, making abstract formal qualities, or
beauty for beauty's sake, the main goal. Rather than being about
what it depicts, the painting itself becomes its own subject. The
New Painting of the 1860s examines the interplay among the artists
and the shared ambitions underlying their works, giving impetus to
what would soon come to be known as the Aesthetic Movement.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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