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Chapters: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Les Nabis, Mánes Union of Fine Arts, Les Xx, Vienna Secession, Roycroft, Société Des Artistes Indépendants, Société Nationale Des Beaux-Arts, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Abramtsevo Colony, Chelsea Arts Club, Glasgow School, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Watercolour Society, New English Art Club, Berlin Secession, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Hogarth Club, Bromsgrove Guild, La Libre Esthétique, Ancients, Société Des Artistes Français, Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, Society of Engravers, St John's Wood Clique, Union of Bulgarian Artists. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member "brotherhood". The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. They believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art. Hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite". In particular, they objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts. They called him "Sir Sloshua", believing that his broad technique was a sloppy and formulaic form of academic Mannerism. In contrast, they wanted to return to the abundant det...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=103326 ... Read more

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Continuing the tradition of the Everyman Art library, combining learned yet lively text by acknowledged scholars in the field withhigh quality illustrations in colour throughout.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 keypictures to their significance within the complex cultural and social matrix of Victorian Britain. Individual chapters providecore concepts for understanding the Pre-Raphalite engagement with medieval revivalism, nature worship, issues of class and gender and the reconciliation of the religious image and realism in the 19th century ; these chapters are also enlivened by tellingbiographical information where it is significant for the meaning of an image. ... Read more

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Title: The Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators: The Published Graphic Art of the English Pre-Raphaelites and Their Associates.(Review)
Author: Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Publication: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of Canada
Volume: 39Issue: 1Page: 114

Article Type: Book Review

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Inspired by the Renaissance and the Italian painter and architect Raphael, a group of young mid-19th century British painters, poets, and critics formed the secret society known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Let by artist and poet Dante Gabrielle Rossetti, the movement rebelled against the rigidity of the Royal Academy. All realism was lost; medieval tales, biblical stories, classical mythology and nature provided inspiration. The result was a style characterized by archaic, yet romantic elements that influenced many artists, and paved the way for the modern era. ... Read more