Reading the Pre-Raphaelites
"Pre-Raphaelite art is par excellence the art of mid-Victorian Britain, and this reappraisal fills an important void within available scholarship on the subject. By adopting a thematic approach, Tim Barringer navigates a course from analysis of key pictures to their significance within the complex cultural and social matrix of Victorian Britain. Individual chapters provide core concepts for understanding the Pre-Raphaelite engagement with medieval revivalism, nature worship, issues of class and gender, and the reconciliation of the religious image and realism in the nineteenth century; these chapters are also enlivened by telling biographical information where it is significant for the meaning of an image."--Jacket
176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
9780300077872, 0300077874
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Rebellion and revivalism
Truth to nature
Modern life
Art, religion and empire
Pre-Raphaelites and aesthetes
Epilogue