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The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites
The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over the years, their achievements are now recognised and their style enjoyed and studied widely. This volume explores the lives and works of the central figures in the group: among others, the Rossettis, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Ford Madox Brown, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. This is the first book to provide a general introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite movement that integrates its literary and visual art forms. The Companion explains what made the Pre-Raphaelite style unique in painting, poetry, drawing and prose.
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The Pre-Raphaelites and science
This revelatory book traces how the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their close associates put scientific principles into practice across their painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture. In their manifesto, The Germ, the Pre-Raphaelites committed themselves to creating a new kind of art modeled on science, in which precise observation could lead to discoveries about nature and humanity. In Oxford and London, Victorian scientists and Pre-Raphaelite artists worked together to design and decorate natural history museums as temples to God's creation. At the same time, journals like Nature and the Fortnightly Review combined natural science with Pre-Raphaelite art theory and poetry to find meaning and coherence within a worldview turned upside down by Darwin's theory of evolution. Offering reinterpretations of well-known works by John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, and William Morris, this major revaluation of the popular Victorian movement also considers less-familiar artists who were no less central to the Pre-Raphaelite project. These include William Michael Rossetti, Walter Deverell, James Collinson, John and Rosa Brett, John Lucas Tupper, and the O'Shea brothers, along with the architects Benjamin Woodward and Alfred Waterhouse. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
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The Last Pre-Raphaelite
In Fiona MacCarthy’s riveting account, Burne-Jones’s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century.
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The Routledge Companion to William Morris
William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance
writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist,
whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and
efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice.
This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the
impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels,
family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations,
political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides
valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on
its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches
to important aspects of its topic.
Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice
make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry,
translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and
Victorian and utopian studies.
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