Pre-Raphaelites Re-viewedMarcia R. Pointon 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 |
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