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Includes Lectures on Art, Political Economy of Art, and Pre-Raphaelites Etc. Illustrated. ... Read more

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William Morris. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Arts and Crafts Movement, News from Nowhere, A Dream of John Ball, Morris, Grettis Saga, Volsunga Saga, The Wood Beyond the World, The Well at the World's End, Art Needlework, The House of the Wolfings, The Story of the Glittering Plain, Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, The Sundering Flood ... Read more

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The work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their followers is enduringly popular and correspondingly familiar to a wide public. Works by women artists within the Pre-Raphaelite style have, however, largely been forgotten and ignored in the history of the movement. This book, published to accompany an exhibition in Manchester, England, brings together paintings, drawings, photographs, and other works that women contributed to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Many are reproduced and documented here for the first time. Spanning three generations from the 1840s to the early 1900s, the artists include Barbara Bodichon, Anna Howitt, Rosa Brett, Anna Blunden, Jane Benham Hay, Joanna Boyce, Elizabeth Siddal, Rebecca Solomon, Emma Sandys, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown, Marie Spartali Stillman, Maria Zambaco, Francesca Alexander, Evelyn De Morgan, Kate Bunce, Marianne Stokes, Christina Herringham, and Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. Their works demonstrate that Pre-Raphaelitism is a broader historical movement than has previously been recognized and that women were active in all its phases. Their re-inclusion in Pre-Raphaelite history will redefine its scope, concerns, and achievements, as well as restore a wealth of neglected works to public attention. ... Read more

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A wonderful book
Most books on the Pre-Raphaelites only touch briefly on the women artists.This book looks at these women, the barriers that made it difficult forthem to paint and the tragic lives that some of them had. No Pre-Raphaelitecollection is complete without this book.

A wonderful book
Most books on the Pre-Raphaelites only touch briefly on the women artists.This book looks at these women, the barriers that made it difficult forthem to paint and the tragic lives that some of them had. no Pre-Raphaelitecollection is complete without this book.

A wonderful resource
I am an avid fan of Pre-Raphaelite painting, and was very pleased to find this book.It is very thorough and wonderfully done.It contains more than 230 lush illustrations, many in color.Featured are 20 artists, someof whom I wasn't familiar with before.Very nice! ... Read more

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Spectacular collection of art cards shows paintings by six of the best-known Pre-Raphaelites, including Rossetti's Lucretia Borgia, La Donna della Finestra, My Lady Greensleeves, and The Blessed Damozel; Millais's The Huguenot; Hunt's Miracle of the Holy Fire; Burne-Jones's The Depths of the Sea, Pan and Psyche, and Flamma Vistalis; Watts's Sir Galahad; and La Rose de L'Infante by Brown. 24 full-color cards on 6 plates. Introduction by Meg Howland, Fogg Art Museum. Captions.
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Inspiring for artists/writers who seek nature's pure beauty.
"The ultimate end of all the arts should be beauty...for here the body and the soul are one, and beauty the crown thereof."This excerpt from Isaac Rosenberg's essay The Pre-Raphaelites and Imagination in Paint is but one of several inspirational writings included in this comprehensive text on the art and artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.As a painter, who occasionally takes to the pen as well, I found a kinship with these painter/poets - not just in chosen mediums of expression, but likewise in their utmost appreciation for the perfect purity of nature and the merit in acheiving it's likeness .As F.G. Stephens wrote in his essay The Purpose and Tendency of Early Italian Art, "seeking after originality in a more humble manner...nothing can be more humble than the pretension to the observation of facts alone, and the truthful rendering of them." I wholeheartedly recommend we request this book be republished.Aspiring and established artists alike, locate it at your public or college library and see what I mean. ... Read more