Reading the Pre-Raphaelites
By: Tim Barringer.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Pre-Raphaelitism
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173) and index.