Pre-Raphaelites Re-viewed

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Marcia R. Pointon
Manchester University Press, 1989 - Art - 168 pages
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in 1848 by the young Millais, Holman Hunt and Rossetti, has long been recognised as a high point in Victorian artistic production. But whilst we know much of the private lives of Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers and their best-known paintings are very familiar, their work (and particularly their visual imagery) has attracted limited attention from art historians and critical theorists. This collection redresses the situation with a series of detailed critical and historical studies of individual issues and productions, artistic and literary, relative to Pre-Raphaelitism. Using rigorous new critical analysis, the book throws new light on the ways in which the Pre-Raphaelites addressed philosophical, religious, political and social questions. It will be essential reading for all students of Victorian art, literature and ideas.--Back cover.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Holman Hunt and the Holy Land
22
Reading The Awakening Conscience rightly
45
the articulation
66
stereoscopy and the PreRaphaelites
83
J E Millais
100
Fantasy and arrested desire in Edward BurneJoness
123
PreRaphaelitism personification portraiture
140
Bibliography
159
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