Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
£43.99
GBPWilliam Holman Hunt (1827–1910) chronicled the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in this well-illustrated two-volume memoir of 1905, controversially presenting himself as the movement's founding father. Popular when first published, it illuminates the search for authenticity of treatment and depth of meaning in his own work and that of Millais, Rossetti and their circle. Stressing the contributions of himself and Millais, Hunt sets out to defend the Brotherhood's ideals, from which he never departed. After his success with The Light of the World, he survived exotic and dangerous travels to create some of the most memorable paintings of the age, such as The Scapegoat (mostly painted by the Dead Sea with a gun at hand) and The Lady of Shalott. Volume 2 covers his further visits to the Holy Land, unconventional remarriage and such later masterpieces as The Triumph of the Innocents. It culminates in a polemical 'Retrospect', linking art to nature, morality and national character.
Product details
June 2013Paperback
9781108060660
554 pages
216 × 140 × 31 mm
0.7kg
104 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Dr Sim, Robert, Dick and I go to the Mount of Olives
- 2. A case to prove the honesty of Jewish conversion
- 3. Plain of Merom
- 4. Travel from Marseilles to Paris
- 5. Leighton
- 6. Life school at Kensington
- 7. Visit to Tennyson
- 8. Breakfast with Gladstone
- 9. Jacob Omnium controversy in Times
- 10. Beamont and St Michael's, Cambridge
- 11. Commence Shadow of Death
- 12. Meet Tissot
- 13. Photogravure executed by Goupil
- 14. Commence The Lady of Shalott
- 15. Light of the World
- 16. Criticisms on Claudio and Isabella
- 17. Impressionism.
