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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn Art of the Pre-Raphaelites, The Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn Art of the Pre-Raphaelites, The. In 1848, seven inexperienced young artists banded together to form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, one of the first and most distinctive group movements in modern art. A century and a half later, their art still has the power to shock, as well as fascinate its audiences. Through the detailed analysis of the materials, techniques, and working pratices of the artists, this lavishly illustrated book examines how Pre-Raphaelite pictures compel the viewer to see more, and more vividly, than traditional painting styles. This intensity of observation reinforces the distinctive subject matter of the pictures: the natural world and the human model, gender identities and sexual relationships, debates on politics, science and religion. Elizabeth Prettejohn is widely acknowledged to be a leading authority on the Pre-Raphaelites, and "The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites" is seen as a classic introduction to the movement. Outstandingly successful as a hardback, it is now published in a new, affordable format by public demand. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Highly recommended. --Library Journal. Comprehensively illustrated, clearly written and introduces the reader to many invigorating new ideas. --Times Literary Supplement. This book goes a long way in offering some fresh visions of a favourite subject. --Susan P. Casteras, Pre-Raphaelite Studies. About the Author : Elizabeth Prettejohn is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Rossetti and his Circle (1997), editor of After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England (1999), and author of Beauty and Art 1750-2000 (2005). Professor Liz Prettejohn Head of Department Professor of History of Art. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Liz studied American art and architecture at Harvard University, before moving to London to study British and French art at the Courtauld Institute. She has worked as Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery and held chairs at the Universities of Plymouth and Bristol. Liz joined the York department in 2012 and served as Head of Department until 2016. Liz is an active guest curator and has co-curated exhibitions on Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John William Waterhouse. In 2011 she gave the Paul Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery, London, on ‘The National Gallery and the English Renaissance of Art’. Departmental roles. Head of Department (2012-16, 2020-present) Senior Management Team Research Committee Teaching Committee Graduate Studies Committee. Research. Overview. Receptions of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art Victorian painting and sculpture The Pre-Raphaelites Victorian Aestheticism Art Criticism (particularly Water Pater, Roger Fry) Relationships between philosophical aesthetics and art practice. Liz’s research early in her career was motivated by curiosity about the low status of British (especially Victorian) art in academic art history. Her books on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement assessed the achievements of Victorian artists and placed them in relation to European Modernism. Her work on the critical fortunes of Victorian art has led to a more general interest in taste and aesthetics, explored in her books Beauty and Art 1750-2000 (2005) and The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso (2012). Her book Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War (2017) argues that Victorian artists were, paradoxically, at their most original when they imitated the Old Masters most faithfully. Projects. Liz is working on a new project provisionally entitled Revaluations: The Story of British Art from the Death of Rossetti to the Stock Market Crash . This will make use of the recent dramatic increase in availability of digital images of works of art to examine a much wider range of artistic production, from the years 1880-1930, than the current scholarly literature acknowledges. It will ask how the consideration of this wider range of work can change our understanding of international modernism in this period, and of its relations both to the art of the past and to the art of more recent periods. Research group(s) Grants. Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant for Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, Modernism and the Arts, c.1875-1960. Supervision. Liz’s current and recent PhD supervisions include the following research areas: Aesthetic Interiors Costume in the Productions of Herbert Beerbohm Tree Mirrors in Victorian Painting Darwin and Beauty The Classical Nude in Romantic Britain Country House Collections: Tyntesfield and Dartington Lawrence Alma-Tadema Murray Marks: Dealing in Chinese Porcelain and Renaissance Bronzes Frederick Sandys and Victorian Illustration John Singer Sargent Graham Sutherland The Contemporary Art Society The 'Generation of 1863' as transnational network Abraham Solomon William Etty Representations of Witchcraft, Spiritualism, and the Dark Arts in Victorian Britain The Caryatid in Nineteenth-Century Britain Artists on Capri Nineteenth Century Female Sculptors Interwar British Art and the Apocalypse German Traveller-Artists in Chile Leighton’s Landscapes The Influence of British Art on Bohemia 1848-1914 The New Gallery 1888-1910 Edward Burne-Jones Ancient Erotic Art in Nineteenth-Century Museums Faith and Fantasy in Late-Nineteenth Century English Art and Literature Art Patronage in Victorian Britain Simeon Solomon Ambrose McEvoy Frances Hodgkins and Cedric Morris Representations of Battle and Conflict in Victorian Art Music as Ideal Art Flowers in the Art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Artistic Legacy of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal. Publications. Selected publications. Books. Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War , Yale University Press, 2017 (co-edited, with Charles Martindale and Stefano Evangelista), Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism , Oxford University Press, 2017 (with Peter Trippi and others), Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity , exhibition catalogue, Prestel, 2016 The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso , I.B. Tauris (New Directions in Classics), 2012 The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites (editor),Cambridge University Press, 2012 Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting , Yale University Press, 2007, Winner of the 2008 Historians of British Art Book Award in the Single-Author, Post-1800 category. Beauty and Art 1750-2000 , Oxford History of Art series, Oxford University Press, 2005 The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites , Tate Publishing and Princeton University Press, 2000; paperback edition 2007 After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England (editor) , Manchester Univeristy Press and Rutgers University Press, 1999 Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity (co-editor, with Tim Barringer), Yale University Press, 1999 Interpreting Sargent , Tate Publishing, 1998 Rossetti and his Circle , Tate Publishing, 1997. Recent articles. 'Ford Madox Brown and History Painting', Visual Culture in Britain 15, 2014, pp. 239-257 ‘Twenty-first Century Millais’, Victorian Literature and Culture 37, 2009, pp. 287-91 ‘Solomon, Swinburne, Sappho’, Victorian Review 34, Fall 2008, pp. 103-28 ‘Art Writing Now’ (review article on T.J. Clark, The Sight of Death , and Peter de Bolla, Art Matters ), Art History 30, November 2007, pp. 769-77 ‘From Aestheticism to Modernism, and Back Again’, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, issue 2, May 2006 ‘Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the Modern City of Ancient Rome’, Art Bulletin LXXXIV, March 2002, pp. 115-29. Contributions to Exhibitions and Exhibition Catalogues (selected) ‘Leighton’s Last Academy’, in Flaming June: The Making of an Icon , Leighton House Museum, London, 2016 ‘Botticelli and the Pre- Raphaelites’, in Botticelli Reimagined , London: Victoria and Albert Museum and Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 2015- ‘La question de la peinture d’histoire en Grande-Bretagne’ in L’Invention du Passé: Histoires de coeur et d’épée en Europe, 1802-1850 , Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2014 ‘In Dialogue with Antiquity: Alma-Tadema’s Studio Houses’, in In the Temple of the Self: The Artist’s Residence as a Total Work of Art: Europe and America 1800-1948 , Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2013 ‘The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy’, in Tim Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld, and Alison Smith (eds), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde , Tate Britain, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 2012-13 ‘Aestheticism in Painting’ and ‘Late Paintings’ in The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement in Britain , Victoria and Albert Museum, April-July 2011, pp. 64-83, 238-41 ‘Introduction: Life, Legend and Landscape: A Miscellany’, in Joanna Selborne (ed.), Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours , The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2011, pp. 8-16 ‘Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Phidias showing the frieze of the Parthenon to his friends’, in Penelope Curtis, On the Meanings of Sculpture in Painting , Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2009-10, pp. 106-8 ‘Frederic Leightons Klassizismus’, in Margot Th. Brandlhuber and Michael Buhrs (eds), Frederic Lord Leighton 1830-1896: Maler und Bildhauer der viktorianischen Zeit , Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2009, pp.
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