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The Modern Pre-Raphaelite
With his grand scale and richly colored canvases and studies, John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) was one of the most influential painters of the 19th...
Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso
Modernism in the visual arts has been defined as a liberation from the classical inheritance. The excitement of modern art is often seen to lie in its...
1750-2000
What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How do perceptions of beauty change with the passage of time? Elizabeth Prettejohn explores th...
What do we mean when we call a work of art `beautiful`? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been ...
Includes 150 illustrations, 100 in color....
Aestheticism in Victorian Painting
In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, the notion of "art for art's sake" became a shared concern: if art is not creat...
Europe and America 1800-1948
From Louis Comfort Tiffany to Kurt Schwitters: an immersive appreciation of the home as art As locuses of creativity, the homes of artists reflect the...
The Modern Pre-Raphaelite : Exhibition : Groningen, Groninger Museum, 14 December 2008 - 3 May 2009, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 27 June - 13 September 2009, Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, 1 October 2009 - 7 February 2010 : Catalog
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti's house in Chelsea was a bohemian enclave in Victorian London, the social centre for such rebels as the visionary painter Edwar...
Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism
Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely consider...
A fascinating introduction to the life and work of John Singer Sargent, the most accomplished portrait painter of the late-nineteenth and early-twenti...
Victorian Art and Design
A persuasive new look at the Pre-Raphaelites, who rebelled against the art establishment of their day and strove to ensure that their works changed th...
The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War
Le revers de la jaquette indique : "With the rise of museums in the 19th century, including the formation in 1824 of the National gallery in London, t...
Edward Burne-Jones is widely regarded as one of the great British artists, and the only Pre-Raphaelite to achieve world-wide recognition through the e...
A lavish exploration of Sargent's relationship to fashion, featuring exquisite costumes from the Gilded Age "The coat is the picture," John Singer Sar...
British Art 1900-1930 : Udst. Kat. Fra Tate Gallery Liverpool
Victorian Drawings & Watercolours
?This catalogue presents a rich selection of Victorian drawings and watercolors from the important collection of The Courtauld Gallery, London. It fea...
Accompanying a major exhibition of Burne-Jones's work at Tate Britain, this book looks at what was distinctive about Burne-Jones's art, and charts the...
British Art 1900-1930
Focuses on the British art world between 1900 and 1930. The text introduces a number of the characters involved and hints at some of their conversatio...