Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: The Anglo-American Enchantment

ISBN-13: 9781138313026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

Margaretta Frederick Watson

Opis

First published in 1997, and written by leading scholars of the day , these fifteen essays examine aspects of the reception and collecting of Pre-Raphaelite Art, the social and cultural context in which the work was favoured and acquired.

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1. Crossing the Big Pond: The Anglo-American appeal of Pre-Raphaelitism, Margaretta Frederick Watson.  2. Pre-Raphaelitism and the Civic Gospel: Burne-Jones and Ruskin in Birmingham.  3. Samuel Bancroft: Pre-Raphaelite Collector, Rowland Elzea.  4. Charles Fairfax Murray and the Pre-Raphaelites ‘Academy’ : Writing and Forging the Artistic Field, Julie F . Codell.  5. ‘Looking Backward’: Opportunities for the Pre-Raphaelites to see ‘Pre-Raphaelite’ Art.  6. Acts of Worship at the Temple of Art: The Grosvenor Gallery and the Second-Generation Pre-Raphaelites, Colleen Denney.  7. The Pre-Raphaelite Nude, Alison Smith.  8. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement and Nineteenth-Century Ladies’ Dress: A Study in Victorian Views of the Female Body, Rachel Weathers.  9. Pre-Raphaelite Women Collectors and the Female Gaze, Dianne Sachko Macleod.  10. Female Savants and the Erotics of Knowledge in Pre-Raphaelite Art, Beverley Taylor.  11. Pre-Raphaelite Portraiture: A Strangely Disordered Vison, Susan P.Casteras.  12. The Pre-Raphaelites, St George and the Construction of Masculinity, Joseph A. Kestner.  13. Epitaph in Avalon: Edward Burne-Jones’s Last Picture, Debra N. Mancoff.  14. A Conflict of Intentions: Tennyson Versus Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators , Becky Wingard Lewis.  15. Suburban Prospects: Vision and Possession in Ford Madox Brown’s an English Autumn Afternoon, Alistair Ian Wright.  16. The ‘Englishness’ of Pre-Raphaelite Painting: A Critical Review, Laurel Bradley.

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Margaretta Frederick Watson