Pre-Raphaelite drawing
By: Colin Cruise
Contributors: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery; Art Gallery of New South Wales
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780500238813
Subjects: Präraffaeliten; Exhibitions; Pre-Raphaelites; Zeichnung; Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; British Drawing
Other titles: Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours
Description: Copiously illustrated with pre-Raphaelite drawings from public and private collections around the UK, the book features an illuminating text by the renowned art historian Colin Cruise, offering a fresh and intimate perspective on this much-loved group of artists.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition "The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours" held at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery January 29-May 15, 2011 and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney June 17-September 4, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Drawings and drawing : a Pre-Raphaelite introduction; title: The flat, the antique and the life : academic drawing and the Pre-Raphaelites; title: Direct and heartfelt : early influences on Pre-Raphaelite drawing; title: Studying nature attentively : Ruskin and Pre-Raphaelitism; title: Drawing the circle : portraits, self-portraits and caricatures; title: Pre-Raphaelite compositions : drawing history, drawing modernity; title: The poetry of illustration : disseminating Pre-Raphaelite drawing in the 1850s and 1860s; title: Working drawings : design and pattern from the Pre-Raphaelites to the arts and crafts movement; title: The aesthetics of drawing from the 1860s to the 1890s : the Pre-Raphaelite influence.