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Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites The Anglo-American Enchantment

244 Pages

by Routledge

240 Pages

by Routledge

244 Pages

by Routledge

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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. Two major collections provide the focus for the investigation: that of the Birmingham city Museums and Art Gallery in the United Kingdom, and that of the... Read more

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.