The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin

The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin
Author: Dinah Roe
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141962593

The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry 'etherialized sensation' (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion ofl'art pour l'art - art for art's sake. Where Victorian realist novels explored the grit and grime of the Industrial Revolution, Pre-Raphaelite poems concentrated on more abstract themes of romantic love, artistic inspiration and sexuality. Later they attracted Aesthetes and Decadents like Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Ernest Dowson, not to mention Gerard Manley Hopkins and W.B. Yeats.

Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism; Papers 1854 to 1862

Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism; Papers 1854 to 1862
Author: William Michael Rossetti
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781019504024

This collection of papers from key members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood provides important insights into the art, literature, and culture of Victorian England. Featuring contributions from John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Reading the Pre-Raphaelites

Reading the Pre-Raphaelites
Author: Tim Barringer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300077872

This illustrated book focuses on the Pre-Raphaelite artists and their radical departure from artistic conventions. Barringer explores the meanings encoded in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and analyses key pictures and their significance within the complex social and cultural matrix of 19th century Britain.

The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle

The Pre-Raphaelites and Their Circle
Author: Cecil Y. Lang
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 022622838X

This useful volume presents the major works of the five leading Pre-Raphaelite poets. Foremost in the collection, and included in their entirety are D. G. Rossetti's The House of Life, C. G. Rossetti's "Monna Innominata," William Morris's "Defence of Guenevere," Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon, and Meredith's "Modern Love." Complementing these major poems is a fine, generous selection of the poets' shorter pieces that are typical of their work as a whole. For this second edition, Cecil Lang has substituted two early Swinburne poems, "The Leper" and "Anactoria," for Fitzgerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. These poems, which the editor describes as "shocking," show a new aspect of Swinburne not discussed previously. Lang's Introduction describes briefly the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, discusses each of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, both individually and in relation to the others, and grapples with the questions of definition of Pre-Raphaelitism and the similarities between its painting and poetry. The book is appropriately illustrated with thirty-two works by D. G. Rossetti, John Ruskin, William H. Hunt, and other Pre-Raphaelite artists. This is the only anthology available that provides a representative selection of the work of these important poets. It will be indispensable to students of Victorian poetry and appreciated by readers interested in the Pre-Raphaelites.

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelites
Author: Inga Bryden
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780415187961

This unique collection demonstrates the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of Pre-Raphaelitism, and contains contains whole texts and key extracts from key Pre-Raphaelite figures such as William Morris, and from less well-known figures.

The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites

The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
Author: Elizabeth Prettejohn
Publisher: Princeton Univ Department of Art &
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780691070575

In a richly illustrated re-examination of a seminal period in art history, the author of Rossetti and His Circle asks important questions about the pre-Raphaelite artists, their work, their artistic themes, and their influence on the history of art.

Desperate Romantics

Desperate Romantics
Author: Franny Moyle
Publisher: John Murray
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2012-11-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1848548575

Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England; they outraged their contemporaries with their loves, jealousies and betrayals, and they stunned society when their complex moral choices led to madness and suicide, or when their permissive experiments ended in addiction and death. The characters are huge and vivid and remain as compelling today as they were in their own time. The influential critic, writer and artist John Ruskin was their father figure and his apostles included the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the designer William Morris. They drew extraordinary women into their circle. In a move intended to raise eyebrows for its social audacity, they recruited the most ravishing models they could find from the gutters of Victorian slums. The saga is brought to life through the vivid letters and diaries kept by the group and the accounts written by their contemporaries. These real-lie stories shed new light on the greatest nineteenth-century British art.

Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites

Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites
Author: Robert Hewison
Publisher: Tate Publishing(UK)
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Published to accompany the exhibition at Tate Britain, London from 9 March to 28 May 2000.