Scarlet Hunters: Pre-Raphaelitism in Canada
Series: Studies in Canadian Culture
Publisher: Archives of Canadian Art
Published: February 28, 1998
Place of publication: Toronto
Number of pages: 217
First sentence: Scarlet Hunters brings together a collection of essays that presents the first extended study of the influence of Pre-Raphaelitism in Canada.
Description: Scarlet Hunters presents the first extended study of the influence of Pre-Raphaelitism in Canada. The intention is not to trace the indisputable influences but rather to showcase a variety of Canadians who pursued their work in the spirit of the Pre-Raphaelite tradition. Started by a group of rebel painters and artists in England, Pre-Raphaelitism denotes the Victorian aesthetic movement that led to the decadence of Oscar Wilde and the Rhymers' Club and to the socialism of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts guilds.