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• The origins of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
• The definition and results of Pre-Raphaelitism
• Intentions.

• The pre-Raphaelites and Victorian society - the formation of the brotherhood, town and country, religion and literature, women - angels and harlots, the artist in society, Ruskin and the Academy. The first pre-Raphaelites - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Ford Maddox Brown
• the followers
• the techniques
• watercolours and drawings
• William Morris and the arts and crafts movement
• Edward Burne-Jones
• the legacy.
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The pre-Raphaelite brotherhood was founded in 1848 when a group of young artists joined together in an attempt to revitalise contemporary art. Their work provoked censure from critics and shocked reactions from the public, yet from the pre-Raphaelite circle emerged some of the greatest artists of the 19th century - Rossetti, Millais, Holman Hunt and the decorative artist William Morris. This volume discusses the lives and works of these friends and arch-rivals, illustrated with large reproductions of their paintings. It begins with a brief social history of the society from which the artists emerged, including a discussion of the position of women and the role of religion and literature in pre-Raphaelite art.
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• Note on the revised edition
• Introduction. Past and present ; Pre-Raphaelite identities ; Contexts ; Art history and pre-Raphaelitism
• 1. Rebellion and revivalism. Architecture and society ; Ford Madox Brown and the Westminster frescoes ; The brotherhood ; Revivalism and realism ; Rossetti and his followers in the 1850s ; Pre-Raphaelitism to socialism
• 2. Truth to nature. Ruskin and Turner ; Modern painters and pre-Raphaelite painting ; Peculiarly English : Madox Brown's view from the suburbs ; Young Ruskinians : Brett and Inchbold ; Photography and pre-Raphaelitism ; A multitude of minute details ; Time, mood and nostalgia : Victorian landscapes after pre-Raphaelitism
• 3. Modern life. Modern life and genre ; separate spheres ; The fallen woman ; Men at work
• 4. Art, religion and empire. Tractarian tendencies ; Muscular Christianity ; The light of the world ; Religion, race and empire : Holman Hunt in the Holy Land ; Typological symbolism
• 5. Pre-Raphaelites and aesthetes. Millais in 1856 : evocations of mood ; Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddall ; Bocca baciata ; The condition of music ; Bohemianism and the erotic ; Aestheticism and pre-Raphaelite photography ; Burne-Jones ; pre-Raphaelite to aesthete ; The Whistler-Ruskin trial
• Epilogue.

Noted for its vivid colors, elaborate use of symbols, and dedication to close observation of the natural world, the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists combines a deep engagement with the past and a modern realism that exemplifies the concerns of the age of steam travel. In Reading the Pre-Raphaelites, author Tim Barringer draws on an imaginative selection of paintings, drawings, and photographs to suggest that the dynamic energy of Pre-Raphaelitism arose out of the paradoxes at its heart. Past and present, historicism and modernity, symbolism and realism, as well as the tensions between city and country, men and women, worker and capitalist, colonizer and colonized all make appearances within Pre-Raphaelite art. By focusing on these issues, Barringer draws together the strands of revisionist thought on the Pre-Raphaelites and provides a range of stimulating new interpretations of their work. Beautifully illustrated, the revised edition of this authoritative survey traces the history of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and includes new sections on photography as well as a revised introduction and bibliography.
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• Introduction: Pre-Raphaelite mythologies, Michaela Giebelhausen and Tim Barringer
• In a word: Pre-Raphaelite, Pre-Raphaelites, Pre-Raphaelitism, Deborah Cherry
• Pre-Raphaelites from rebels to representatives: masculinity, modernity, and national identity in British and Continental art histories, c.1880-1908, Julie F. Codell
• 'A soul of the age': Rossetti's words and images 1848-73, David Peters Corbett
• Reconstructing Pre-Raphaelitism: the evolution of William Michael Rossetti's critical position, Julie L'Enfant
• The quest for Christ: William Holman Hunt and the writing of artistic motivation, Michaela Giebelhausen
• Written out? The case of Ford Madox Brown, William Vaughan
• Absent of reference: new languages of nature in the critical responses to Pre-Raphaelite landscapes, Jason Rosenfield
• Poetic, eccentric, Pre-Raphaelite: the critical reception of Simeon Solomon's work at the Dudley Gallery, Colin Cruise
• Exhibiting the avant-garde: the development of the Pre-Raphaelite 'brand', Matthew Plampin
• Millais in reproduction, Malcolm Warner
• Bibliography
• Index.
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This vibrant collection of essays claims that a complex network of texts by critics, biographers and diarists established the credibility and influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Throughout the twentieth century, Modernist taste failed to acknowledge the achievement of oppositional groupings such as the Pre-Raphaelites. The essays collected here, however, reveal that the British group anticipated later avant-gardes by using the written word to configure for itself a radical artistic identity. Public and critics alike were scandalized by the radicalism of Pre-Raphaelite painting, its unflinching portrayal of historical figures and of contemporary life, and its irreverent attitude to artistic convention. Pre-Raphaelitism's innovations were not confined to style: new forms of artistic identity and behaviour were explored. As the contributors interrogate the texts through which Pre-Raphaelitism was constructed, they demonstrate that the movement's wide influence as a cultural phenomenon derived from the interplay between exhibited works and critical discourse. Applying a range of sophisticated methodologies from the fields of literary studies, art history, and cultural studies, these interdisciplinary essays uncover the neglected role of texts in the success of the Pre-Raphaelite rebellion and argue in favor of a new centrality for this movement in the history of nineteenth-century European culture.
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